Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-25 Thread John P. Burkett
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:51 -0400, John P. Burkett wrote: The response included the following lines: * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.20

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-24 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote: At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed that the computer would not print to my local printer. Using the CUPS menu did

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-24 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009 15:47:44 John P. Burkett wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote: At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-24 Thread John P. Burkett
/baselayout-2.0.1.ebuild Does the presence of those files indicate that my system is using baselayout-2? Best regards, John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

[gentoo-user] udev, cryptsetup, and ensuing problems

2009-06-23 Thread John P. Burkett
to diagnose and fix the above noted problems with cryptsetup, printer, mouse, and X. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

[gentoo-user] font missing

2009-06-13 Thread John P. Burkett
/share/fonts/misc/10x20-KOI8-R.pcf.gz Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated. -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: font missing

2009-06-13 Thread John P. Burkett
rea...@newsguy.com wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated. I had the same problem but was able to view from an old backup of var in a previous OS install what was installed. It showed 38 packages I'd also

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the (non

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-31 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add

[gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread John P. Burkett
command to prevent grub from probing the (non-existing) floppy drives. My machine has a floppy drive. Should I omit the --no-floppy option and just do grub-install /dev/sda ? -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Gregory Shearman wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Completed installing ati-drivers-8.552-r2 into * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Alex Schuster wrote: John P. Burkett writes: Doing PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world on my amd64 machine elicits a response that ends as follows: [...] * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so * * Searching all installed

[gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
emake failed * The die message: * emake failed I'd be grateful for suggestions about how to fix the problem. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:13:19 John P. Burkett wrote: glConsole.cc:50:23: error: FTGL/FTGL.h: No such file or directory In file included from glConsole.cc:51: /usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:29:5: warning: #warning This header is deprecated. Please use FTGL/ftgl.h

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Dale wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: Alan, Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following: I created a /usr/portage/package.mask file

[gentoo-user] Failed to install x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2

2009-04-18 Thread John P. Burkett
/extensions/libglx.so gets the following response: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so Suggestions for how to successfully emerge -D -uav world would be much appreciated. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3 no mouse [solved]

2009-04-12 Thread John P. Burkett
find out how to emulate a mouse click that way. HTH comments welcome. Thank you, Philip. Your suggestions worked perfectly for me on an amd64 machine. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

[gentoo-user] gegl, eutils inherit

2009-04-07 Thread John P. Burkett
be added? 2. How should the addition be made? John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-05 Thread John P. Burkett
Nick Fortino wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response the included the following lines: * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 gnome-base/gnome-panel:0 kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5 mail-client/-MERGING-evolution

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-05 Thread John P. Burkett
ABCD wrote: John P. Burkett wrote: Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response the included the following lines: * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 gnome-base/gnome-panel:0 kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5 mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0

[gentoo-user] trouble emerging media-libs/gegl-0.0.22

2009-04-05 Thread John P. Burkett
to bypass gegl when doing emerge -D -uav world. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-04 Thread John P. Burkett
again redid revdep-rebuild, with the same results. Suggestions for how to successfully run revdep-rebuild would be most welcome. I'm willing to sacrifice evolution if that would help. -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask

2009-03-29 Thread John P. Burkett
for a stable app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo version = 1.0. -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

[gentoo-user] slot conflict

2009-03-29 Thread John P. Burkett
required by app-text/evince-2.24.2 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) I would be grateful for suggestions as to (1) which package if any should be masked, and (2) what to do about app-text/poppler-bindings. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict

2009-03-29 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 29 March 2009 08:26:45 John P. Burkett wrote: Working on a amd64 machine, I did emerge -D -uav world and got the following response: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot

[gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask

2009-03-28 Thread John P. Burkett
structure, eliminating the requirement for emacs-common-gentoo-1.0. Further, I am not sure how to do either one. Suggestions would be much appreciated. John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] mask

2009-03-28 Thread John P. Burkett
Jorge Morais wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:47:56 -0400 John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu wrote: Starting March 14, whenever I have tried doing emerge -D -uav system the response has included !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1[X] have been masked. On my x86

[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

[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