Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all gentoo people! > I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of > reinstalling it today. > While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is > available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best kn

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

On Sunday 06 January 2013 19:22:16 Mick wrote: > WOW! The fact that any KDEPIM devs consider this migration torture even > remotely acceptable must be a clear sign of advanced insanity! O_O > > Thank you very much for your detailed instructions. It seems that kmail2 > requires the full KDE de

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

> On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates > to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects > approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my > opinion kdepim2 is vastly over-engineered and an attempt to solve a > problem that doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:22:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I do not know who shat into the brains of the kdepim devs that they fucked > up kmail in this unbelievable broken way. Most people do not need akonadi > - or nepomuk. Everything worked GREAT. Now most shit only works half way, a >

[gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat

On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It > works as root but not via fstab for users. > > bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp > mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' > bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp > FUSE exfa

[gentoo-user] Re: Resurrecting a Gentoo install

On Saturday 21 January 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote: > >>> # emerge -avDuN system > >>> [snip] > >>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20081028" > >>> have been masked. > >>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > > highly-partitioned, like this: > > > > / > > /boot > > /usr > > /tmp > > /usr/portage ==> via NFS > > /var > > /var/lib/postgresql >

[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?

On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is > > >> highly-partitioned, like this: > - >8 snip > > > I don't use LVM

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. > > commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected > > in a bad way by th

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

On Sunday 09 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/09/11 13:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > For rxvt, a suitable flag name would be "plugins" > > Or if there were some package-specific documentation that said, > "perl: enable the following plugins (written in perl): tabs, > transparency, etc.

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. > > commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected > > in a bad way by th

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

On Tuesday 11 October 2011, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 08 October 2011 19:43:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this > > some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is > > 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tel

[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today > > I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. > > > > I found the solution

[gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode

x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable "perl" USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH F

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I wish yours it's not a RAM > > > > issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting > > any load to the machine, so it's very useful w

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes

On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: > Here's a strange one: > > Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. > Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started > causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep > and the disk will sto

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot

On Friday 19 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/18/2011 10:08 PM, András Csányi wrote: > > On 18 August 2011 18:59, wrote: > >> Hi, guys > >> > >> It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is > >> the first time I try to build a kernel without "genkernel". > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: Kde-meta

On Sunday 07 August 2011, john wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to emerge kde-meta but getting the following error > message > > Calculating dependencies... done! > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in > retval = emerge_main() > File "/usr/lib64/portage

[gentoo-user] Re: Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

On Monday 20 June 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB > > file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, > > and then use cat to reassemble? > > I think it sh

[gentoo-user] Re: to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion

On Tuesday 14 June 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Why are the versions oscillate that way? Did you add loop-aes globally in /etc/make.conf, or per package in /etc/portage/package.use? In the latter case did you specify the packet version? Can you see why I'm asking these questions? Cheers

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find b43 in kernel config

On Thursday 09 June 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Grant wrote: > > I've satisfied these requirements: > > > > Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && SSB_POSSIBLE [=y] && > > MAC80211 [=n] && HAS_DMA [=y] > > > > but I don't see the option here: > > > > Locatio

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to a hardened profile and back again

On Thursday 17 March 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: > cp /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage/sets/my_world > emerge @my_world Neil, this is simply wonderful :) Thanks FT -- Linux Version 2.6.38-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 16 20:03:24 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4G

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

On Sunday 06 March 2011, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 06.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) > > that > > > > resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: > > fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 > > > > When I came back 10 ho

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like "emerge --sync"? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

On Sunday 30 January 2011, BRM wrote: > A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a > failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got > destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a > new copy of portage like a new install since it was ju

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: > I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What > creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has > brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete

On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: > > Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of > > /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn > > From the ChangeLog: > > *eix-0.22.1 [...] > - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of > /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete.

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: > >> Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the > >> adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as > >> you

[gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete

What I'm trying to accomplish: For some packages, when a new version is available, to be able to merge them without adding them to /etc/portage/package.keyword, and when/if the installed version is marked as stable I wish eix-test-obsolete won't tell me that this particular package is redundant

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: > Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the > adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you > can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point > where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on t

[gentoo-user] Re: UPS driver error

On Saturday 01 January 2011, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a iDowell UPS with a USB connection which I'm trying to > configure with Gentoo. This UPS works fine with the default settings > in WinXP and apparently with AppleMac boxen which it is marketed for: > > http://store.apple.com/uk/produ

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

On Saturday 13 November 2010, Grant wrote: > I don't need encouragement, I need advice. :) In the end it isn't a technical problem, it is a question of trust. > > The questions are: > > > > 1) The relative sizes of the problems? > > No problems really. It's just kind of a never-ending project

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 > > > > HTH > > > >Francesco > > I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means > sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 Actually 2.2_rc67 was removed recently. ciao Francesco -- Linux Vers

[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking

On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: > Hi, list. > I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include > /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. > > Can I safely do: > > mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage > ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world > > Will por

[gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla search

On Saturday 30 October 2010, Thanasis wrote: > I was searching Bugzilla for a bug namely #342845, which I found via > google > (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/git/ > git-1.7.3.2-r1.ebuild?view=markup), because when I put git-1.7.3.2-r1 > in the Find field of Bugzill

[gentoo-user] Re: Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN

On Friday 08 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote: > > So Wireshark is a GUI tool? > > Yes. But net-analyzer/wireshark installs a CLI tool too: tshark Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r9, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 28 20:02:12 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors,

[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.

On Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less > stable. > > I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons > (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. > Seg fault sometimes. I've

[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix circular dependency?

On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: > OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering > this: > > # emerge -uDtpvk world When it's time to upgrade a large number of programs, it's better to take the task one step at a time, for example the following command: e

[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was "how to remove HAL")

On Sunday 22 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote > > > I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from > > "emerge -a --depclean" followed by "revdep-rebuild -- -a"? &

[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was "how to remove HAL")

On Thursday 19 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote > > > I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that > > --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I > > remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't

[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: > > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post > > correctly first time, not even on the archives. > > > > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out

[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > > Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID > > > module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

> Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID > module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together > beforehand? > md: looking for a shared spare drive > md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded > mode > md: recovery thread finished

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows > >

[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy

Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see "a la emerge --tree" the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without dow

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost > their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix > this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- L

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. > Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEM

[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: > > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but > > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. > > > >

[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

On Sunday 27 September 2009, James wrote: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > >>> Portage deletes these > >>> > > > > after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged > > > > packages depending on it. > > > > > > OK, so now I just have to root it out manually.? > > > > qfile -

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

On Sunday 27 September 2009, Stroller wrote: > The dansguardian website states that it does not include blacklists > and instead links to > . That has a category for > dating, and can surely be referenced directly by

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

On Sunday 27 September 2009, David Juhl wrote: > I want to block as many dating sites as possible, but I am having to > luck. The url_regex can't catch a lot. Either I need to find a > regular expression in the url or find something that will look at the > sites web page... Not all urls use date

[gentoo-user] Re: Jinja2 & sphinx deadly embrace

On Saturday 26 September 2009, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > Any attempt of updating my system is locked by this problem: > > [ebuild N]dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1 USE="doc examples > -i18n -test" [ebuild N] dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1 > USE="doc -test" > > * Error: circ

[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

On Saturday 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: > How to hotplug IDE hard drive? > I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan > IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? No hot-plug with IDE, it simply isn't supported. Maybe you need /usr/sbin/partprobe (from parted) Ciao

[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate > > > entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any id

[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

On Monday 24 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there an application, which is able to physically decrease > > the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of > > sound quality. > > (Background: I am mer

[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200 > > Francesco Talamona wrote: > > I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I > > can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, > >

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the "needloving" [1], don't know if it worth trying. I need something

[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: > Hello list > > I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the > feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am > experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW > TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pr

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as > well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone > else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers,

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: > I was talking about with just a plain file system.  I read in a > install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having > /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good > security practice.  That way no one could alter the kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote: > $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 > The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be > established. RSA key fingerprint is. > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes > Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts > (/home/grant/.ssh/k

[gentoo-user] Re: conflict in update

On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world > >> and displays all packages it finds that are dependencies of > >> something else in world, but I haven't fou

[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > Greets, > > So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things > that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. > Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show > one mask at a time. So I was cur

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > [...] > > > The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. > > > > I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a > > liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. > > You mean the 1 extra command that's n

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] splitting and printing big image

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > I have a PDF document. One of documet's page is a (scalable) > schematics. Printing the page via my A4 Kyocera isn't suitable - I > can see a schematics with a lens only :-) Is there a way to split the > page (into 2 or 4 parts) and ptint pa

[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Mike Diehl wrote: > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. > > But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made > sense. > > When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: > > sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) > > So I do: > emerge -C mktemp > > Now

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to > manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a > breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible. I thought it was already there: sys-fs/zfs-fuse

[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote: > > With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate > > to also mention the risk. > > > > On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to > > upgrade partitions every n

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? > > Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed > me :-) > > I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wi

[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: [...] > I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam > (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the > media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles: > > /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/w

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the sa

[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

On Sunday 26 October 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do > anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just > fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? > Just making sure it's not something on my en

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > Francesco Talamona ha scritto: > > On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking > >> (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-reb

[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: > Hi all, > running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see > the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). > At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. > After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list an

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with a slow rsync server

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 180 seconds is 5 minutes ??? 60*3 = 180 5 minutes are 300 seconds :-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15 09:40:53 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.87 Bogom

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

On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with > > > > find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \; > > > > that works with spaces,

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

On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote: > > >> Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. > > >> Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

On Saturday 16 August 2008, Dale wrote: > Sebastian may have more and better ideas but if a reboot gave you > some space back, then you should check the tmp directories that are > usually cleared when rebooting.  I notice that in your list /tmp > takes up 3.8Gb which is a good bit. May want to see

[gentoo-user] Re: unicode losting

On Thursday 14 August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote: > Hi, > I update last month to new profile (using eselect) and since that > time I nitice that my unicode doesn't work properly. > I configured my gentoo-box using unicode wiki on gentoo website, but > it seems that new profile disactives my unicode se

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: > emerge -C slocate && emerge mlocate && time updatedb && time updatedb > > mlocate is supposed to be compatible with slocate, but the updatedb > command runs much faster. Your test doesn't proof anything!! Many information are cached and available

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't complete emerge world.

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Mike Diehl wrote: > What do I need to do to get past this? > > TIA, > -- > Mike Diehl Try this command, what gives you? emerge -av =sys-libs/ss-1.40.9 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9 =sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #1

[gentoo-user] Re: problems building php

On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Michael George wrote: > Has anyone else had this problem? Can you compile without the imap flag? Maybe some underlying lib is missing... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 5 18:06:28 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64

[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: > - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom > init-script prior to checkfs and localmount? It's impractical, check carefully all partitions with mdadm -E If it's not automatically assembled but you can do it manually, i

[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site

> I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it. nc is in net-analyzer/netcat Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gento

[gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT

On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. May 08: > > Even the simple "pear" command from the command line hangs, strace > > show that it hangs at > > > > futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL > > I had this problem with rpm waiting for a loc

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: > Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix > it? > >   > > BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at > the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco -

[gentoo-user] Re: Home page slowness

On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. Why? What features are you expecting? > The comment is, Gentoo > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo > is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gstreamer

On Thursday 08 May 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > Here is the relavent output from eix gstreamer: > > [UD] media-libs/gstreamer >      Available versions:  (0.10)  0.10.14 (~)0.10.17 (~)0.10.19 > {debug nls test} >      Installed versions:  0.8.11(0.8)(18:40:46 04/24/07)(-debug -doc) >  

[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

> > 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin > > on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? > > On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; > on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get compiled, i

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Why do I have duplicated md devices? > > It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an > incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is > implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll > get /dev/

[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a > > warning about GasKit. > > > > It's because there's a /dev/dev folder > > Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see th

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Never do this unless you're using xfs. > > > > Why? "never fsck at boot time" -> > > Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The > only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see > below. You stated this (x

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: > Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no > attempts to start the array until I manually try. > > Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not sa

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: > Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. > Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to > "never fsck" at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to set the check *

[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: > I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't > remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What > should I do with this? > > 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with "single > ro" kernel parameteres? >

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

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls > (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB > [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking > sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 > (is blocking sys-

[gentoo-user] Re: ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

On Thursday 17 April 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0 > which I deleted. > > Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But > doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now > defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't > that default

[gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?

On Friday 04 April 2008, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses > NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of > understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but > I use fixed IP's VirtualBox can be config

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