Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:44:21 -0500 Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you installed it suid to an

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:24 -0500 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emerge --pretend --depclean *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING ***

[gentoo-user] Ripping a CD to mp3 formate (sound-juicer)

2008-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have used gentoo for a while, but am new to audio. Sound-juicer successfully rips CDs to .ogg files, which are successfully played by totem. I would like to produce .mp3 audio for some instead of .ogg. SJ (sound-juicer) lists mp3 in its edit profiles... option but does not include it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping a CD to mp3 formate (sound-juicer) SOLVED

2008-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:35:33 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound-juicer successfully rips CDs to .ogg files, which are successfully played by totem. I would like to produce .mp3 audio for some instead of .ogg. SJ (sound-juicer) lists mp3 in its edit profiles... option

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

2008-11-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:05:22 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease the update of etc files

[gentoo-user] kerberos use flag

2008-11-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Today's emerge --ask --verbose --deep --tree --newuse --update world turned up a bunch of reinstalls due to -kerberos*. I have not changed make.conf. Did some profile change? Output from emerge --info is below. thanks, allan allan gottlieb # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos use flag

2008-11-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:47:54 +0200 Eray Aslan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08.11.2008 17:27, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Today's emerge --ask --verbose --deep --tree --newuse --update world turned up a bunch of reinstalls due to -kerberos*. I have not changed make.conf. Did some profile change

[gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am hoping that 1. I can use it to install either amd64 or x86 gentoo 2. I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:26 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am

[gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble. The client is allan. The server is ajglap. From the client (gnome-terminal) I can run ssh as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh ajglap Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:50:02 EDT 2008 from allan on ssh Last login: Tue Oct

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble Yesterday's update

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:24 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were waiting for me. I took a

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have unmerged all the files involved in the blockage allan Mail # emerge --ask --unmerge e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs ss com_err These are the packages that would be unmerged: --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs' to unmerge. --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs-libs' to unmerge. ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:38 + Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:34 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: [nomerge ] app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r1 USE=doc ipv6 -krb4 -tcl Use the ~ version of mit-krb5, any version above 1.6.3-r2 should be okay

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:43:38 -0400 James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 28, 2008 10:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix Are there any issues with all these

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:20:25 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my x86 system there is -D USERDIR. And what's on your /etc/conf.d/apache2 ? Bingo, thanks. I dealt with /etc/apache2. My error was forgetting that there was in addition /etc/conf.d/apache2. thanks again, allan

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason I don't get USERDIR working on my amd64 box. Below is attached the output from /etc/init.d/apache2 dumpconfig

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Sorry for the aborted send a few minutes ago. For some reason I am not getting USERDIR on amd64. Attached below is the output of /etc/init.d/apache2 configdump The trouble is apparently early in the output /usr/sbin/apache2 started with '-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D MANUAL -D SSL -D

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:33:11 +0100 David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:50:42 Allan Gottlieb wrote: Rather, It is less objectionable for people who have accomplished a very great deal and have greatly improved the computing environment for the members

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
unset my fail bit i just assigned on myself ) Yes, you misread my post. I said that list when I had just discussed the kernel list. allan gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:33:27 +0100 David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:13:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:15:38 +0100, David Leverton wrote: Because your attitude was abrasive and antagonistic. I trust these people won't be using Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:47:57 +0100 David Leverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:39:12 Allan Gottlieb wrote: 1. You are not linus. It's OK for people I like to do this, but not people I don't like? Rather, It is less objectionable for people who have accomplished

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 + Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Daniel, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote: However looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most noticeable when running emerge. It is very also noticeable running

Re: [gentoo-user] Recall info request on grub problem

2008-09-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:28:39 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:28 -0500, Dale wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Awhile back there was a thread about grub working but the menu not showing up, and in that thread there was a setting suggested, something

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lexyacc or flexbison programs

2008-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
have extensive lecture notes based on the first 8 chapters. They are available off my home page http://cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb allan

[gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update

2008-08-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
-parser-2.22.3) It seems clear enough and the ebuild for the parser does have DEPEND=${RDEPEND} !media-video/totem-2.21 =dev-util/intltool-0.35 doc? ( dev-util/gtk-doc ) But I don't have totem-2.21 installed allan gottlieb # eix --verbose totem * dev

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update

2008-08-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:50:38 -0700 Joshua D Doll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I was away for two weeks and am not trying to do an --update world. Gnome 2.22 has gone stable so there are a number of pkgs to emerge and a few blockers. (full output is below) I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't libxslt updated by emerge world?

2008-07-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:35:29 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there is: # emerge -pv libxslt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24 [1.1.20] USE=crypt python -debug -examples% 3,286 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater

2008-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:04 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]: I did some updates today. emerge --sync and updated world on my production machine. Things went OK, including running python-updater. Then I scp'd the contents

[gentoo-user] playing audio discs

2008-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am a novice with respect to sound. Nearly everything works. totem plays CDs system sounds are OK The trouble is that the cd player, gnome-cd part of gnome-media, says there is no disc in the drive (there is only one drive). I don't have many USE flags (in particular ogg, wavpack, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried to add this line to /etc/fstab: echo /dev/usb /mnt/usb auto noauto,rw,user /etc/fstab Do you have a file called /dev/usb ? On my system they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:45 -0700 jalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy to do. (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get home if you still need to know). On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote:

[gentoo-user] discarding sources of old kernels

2008-07-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked. They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19* Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if I discard the corresponding sources. I am fairly sure that I need keep only the contents of /lib/modules/version and

Re: [gentoo-user] discarding sources of old kernels

2008-07-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:08:15 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked. They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19* Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if I discard the corresponding sources

[gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound

2008-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome system. I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. From the main (foot) menu, system -- preference -- sound produces a dialog box with three tabs. The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I press

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound

2008-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome system. I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. From the main (foot) menu, system -- preference -- sound produces a dialog box with three tabs

[gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:33:21 +0200 Sebastian Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 20:04]: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700 Joshua D Doll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:30:12 -0400 Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this thread. I had a bunch of gibberish on the screen, too, after the most recent emerge and figured it was grub but didn't know why. Strangely, the splash image was missing from /boot/grub - is it not supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem: SOLVED

2008-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(Summary: I had a problem with installing grub into the MBR. Two thoughtful replies set me straight) At Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,2

[gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the *** 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 version, which could

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:08:11 -0500 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. What ever is the most

[gentoo-user] where is emacs-cvs-23.0.60 ?

2008-07-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I see mention of emacs-cvs-23.0.60 is several places including bugs.gentoo.org, but I can't find it in portage. I am running 23.0.50 now with success. thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one point. I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this. Failing the above, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:01:17 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gordon Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need out of the box. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:17:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:44 -0700 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk (SOLVED ?)

2008-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you alan and Q. The problem seems to be that I was trying to mount (a partition of) the usb disk at boot time with localmount. The localmount init script is run before the usb filesystem (usbfs) is mounted. I have now listed it as noauto in fstab and mount it in local.start. But I did

[gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am having trouble with my external USB disk. I have the following entry in fstab: /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==335144304641374D, ATTRS{product}==ST94811U2-RK, ATTRS{manufacturer}==Seagate,

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up `du'

2008-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 May 2008 16:49:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to speed up the du command? I mean short of having cron run it on target directories and store results. (not really speeding up but at least not having to wait for a result) I've seen various mention of du being

[gentoo-user] kernel config ata/atapi and scsi

2008-05-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I remember reading that much of the CDrom et al support now uses the scsi subsystem, but have not remembered enough. I would appreciate answers to the following specific questions. I have a dell insprion 6400 laptop. Using lshw I find that the ide interface contains ATA disk Hitachi HTS72101

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:37 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:53:28 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: If you don't, the stage1 in your MBR may not work with the stage1.5 and stage2 in /boot. This happened

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:23 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Allan Gottlieb: This discussion is interesting and may well prove helpful. But, unless I missed it, I didn't see an answer to my question, namely Although it was a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
. Thanks! You are welcome and thanks again to alan mckinnon for confirming my guess. allan (gottlieb) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] is grub in my mbr?

2008-05-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I believe that when I upgrade grub I am supposed to re-run it. I would like to keep the same configuration I have know but am not sure if I installed grub in the MBR (I dual boot windows since it is often needed when calling Dell Support). I believe that I do have grub in the mbr, but wish to

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

2008-04-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:33:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: # emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree world gives just a few packages with dev-java/rhino the last one (first to be merged). But # emerge

[gentoo-user] cpu use flags

2008-04-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have an intel core2 duo (currently in 32 bit mode x86). Is there any reason why I should not set the following use flags. mmx, sse, sse2, ssse3 The last one would be a local flag for mplayer. proc/cpu indicates I have this functionality. flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:52 +0100 Henry Gebhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help would be appreciated. What size are your PDFs? In particular the output from pdfinfo pdffile.pdf | grep 'Page size' might be

Re: [gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:08:11 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:48:09 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/17/08 00:21, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it came out. The bug was dismissed closed the same day I file it, week later the php was downgraded to current one php

[gentoo-user] evince and letter size paper

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
emerging libpaper says elog run \paperconfig -p letter\ as root to use letter-pagesizes elog or paperconf with normal user privileges. I did the first and when I run paperconf it says letter as does cat /etc/papersize Nonetheless, whenever evince starts up it defaults to A4 paper. Any help

[gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
session from /home/gottlieb/.nautilus/saved-session-0ECE2T crtc 1: disable screen 0: 1600x1200 314x236 mm 129.15dpi crtc 0:1600x1200 60.0 +0+0 VGA ** Message: drive = 0 ** Message: volume = 0 No running windows found non-network local connections being added

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:11:57 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. When I try to start gnucash I get: Segmentation fault Though, gnucash is working OK on my other backup system, so I don't know what is going on. I built it on another machine just now and it works there too. I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash won't start--PLEASE help

2008-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:33:35 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll tell you what will happen, they will close the bug with some silly message not enough info etc. I hope you are wrong, but of course time will tell. The same way when I file a bug about new php-5.2.5_p20080206 when it

[gentoo-user] openoffice hangs (openoffice-bin a little better) no /opt/OpenOffice

2007-10-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I emerge openoffice-2.3.0. Whenever I try to start any component, it hangs. For example [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ooo libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering The splash screen comes up, but that is it. When I type ^C I get back a

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions, permissions

2007-10-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
-ID bit so the page suggests chmod +6000 parent-directory which sets both. Also this is a gnu extension and not required by POSIX. allan gottlieb new york university -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] totem and mplayer fail on acm turing lecture

2007-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am trying to view http://www.acm.org/news/featured/turingaward2006.mov totem complains that I don't have the necessary codecs (MPEG-4 AAC decoder) (MPEG-4 Video decoder) I thought I set the right use flags, but presumably not ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:48:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:40 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether the software compiled against newer headers will still work depends solely on the kernel. In your example, when you also decide to run a 2.6.10 kernel, then the software relying on newer features (due to the

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in using headers with a higher/lower version number. But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems.

[gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
world offered to merge sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22-r2 Should I do this merge? thanks, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7

Re: [gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild SOLVED

2007-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0200 Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: As always Bo's reply solved the problem completely. I apologize for missing the remove commands. I shall read the instructions more carefully in the future. thank for the help. allan gottlieb

[gentoo-user] insatiable revdev-rebuild

2007-10-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago triggered a request for me to run # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7 # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7 I have done so. The revdep-rebuild for libssl found nothing, but the one for libcrypto rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
implement RandR version 1.2 What does xrandr -v say. For me it is Server reports RandR version 1.2 If you don't have 1.2 you won't have the --output stuff. Also --on doesn't exist even in 1.2. I found man xrandr helpful. allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:24:59 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, i will try if i can get it working like this but randr doesn't seem to work on the secondary device. I have heard that nvidia cards doesn't support randr 1.2 so i will give it a try with randr

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:26 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested xrandr but it is useless for me! I tried various things but neither of them seem to have any effect on my secondary screen. Since you are describing a TV out it might be your tertiary screen. When I type

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.conf changes and dual screen setup

2007-09-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:33:35 +0200 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the update to xorg-server-1.3 broke my dual-screen setup. It creates a virtual screen size with the same size of the primary monitor for the second monitor which is my TV. So i can only reach a zone with 800x600 on

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer fonts

2007-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:19:25 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:55:09 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cannot load bitmap font: /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/cour.ttf Have you compiled mplayer with truetype USE flag? I have now :-). thanks

[gentoo-user] playing mms with totem

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When I fed mit-arvind-tribute-dennis-220k.asx to totem, a popup appeared saying No URI handler implemented for mms Is there a plugin I need or an extra use flag? thanks, allan ajglap gottlieb # eix totem [I] media-video/totem Available versions: 2.16.5 2.18.2 2.18.3 {a52 dbus debug

mplayer fonts (was: [gentoo-user] playing mms with totem)

2007-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:09:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can't say for sure if totem does mms:// - but vlc and mplayer both do. Thanks I tried mplayer and as soon as it starts it complained that it could not load bitmap font sans-serif. So I went to preferences and pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:15:12 +0200 Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same wireless lan card and I have no problems with my installation. Your soln does not work for me, but we do have differences (see below) What does work is when I BOTH autoload ipw3945 and have ip23945d in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:26:36 +0200 Michael Gisbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Wednesday 22 August 2007 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I have the same hardware and had the same problem. I have used the following kludge to fix it. Add ipw3945 to /etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 and add ipw3945d

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2007-08-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:04:52 -0400 Colleen Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm having a heck of a time trying to get wireless going on my laptop. I've tried so many things, I'm a bit dizzy and don't know where I've gone right or wrong. First things first. lspci shows my

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:00:17 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/14/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:49:56 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An interesting development: I removed my user from the system and deleted his home folder

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb schrieb: At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
solace in the fact that you're not alone. Gnome sort of works when you log in as root from gdm. I copied my gnucash files over and modify the file /root/.gnome/GnuCash to point to this copy and it actually worked. But I still want (basically need) to be able to do this as gottlieb not root. I

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
how this could be. I created ANOTHER user with a different name and logged in... perfectly. Everything seems to work with this user, and nothing seems to work with my user. Are user-based settings stored in some other place? I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:20:07 + (UTC) Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also had gnome working fine, then one day it failed for no apparent reason, I hadn't emerged anything for a bit that I recall. I did emerge unmerge nautilus and then emerge nautilus which seemed to to do the trick

Re: [gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I created a new user testgot with the same uid as gottlieb and it works. There must be something in my config (and yours) that is bad for the old user. I can balance my checkbook

[gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I successfully battled the expat problem (with Bo's help) and revdep-rebuild reports no further need to recompile. But gnome seems badly broken. $HOME/.gnomerc-errors has one line SESSION_MANAGER=local/ajglap:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7081 1. (minor) gdm can't find the emergence theme, haven't tracked it

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge -uDNav world) exhibits every one of the problems that you had. At least you can take solace in the fact

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:49:20 +0300 Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (13/08/07 22:32) Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system

Re: [gentoo-user] expat troubles now gnome *very flakey*

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:27:09 -0700 Greg Bengeult [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:15:20 -0400 Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Well, contrary to my expectations, my system (after emerge

[gentoo-user] new gnome fails except for root

2007-08-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
to start a gnome app (e.g. gnucash), no output is produced, no window appears, but the app shows up in ps x. I would be very appreciative for any help. thanks in advance, allan gottlieb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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