Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had my music collection mounted over nfs and I ran into a similar problem: amarok wouldn't be able to read the entire thing and the nfs shares would stop working. The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Myk Taylor
memtest86+ ( http://www.memtest.org/ ) works well for detecting bad RAM, and comes standard on the x86 Gentoo install CD, I believe. Ryan Sims wrote: only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if anyone could

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-18 Thread Myk Taylor
'portage' since some packages like to run make O=${KBUILD_OUTPUT} mrproper, so user portage needs write access. --myk -- makekernel script #!/bin/sh # # makekernel # # written by Myk Taylor, 2004 # 'makekernel' without parameters will build and install the custom kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-17 Thread Myk Taylor
emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge --myk C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources

2005-12-17 Thread Myk Taylor
)? Just curious, I always just used the rm -fr Myk Taylor wrote: emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread Myk Taylor
default gnupg (Enigmail) integration with Thunderbird was removed recently because of trouble with the build. from the ebuild: ewarn Enigmail Support has been dropped since it doesn't work on fresh install. ewarn The Gentoo Mozilla team is working on making enigmail its own build,

[gentoo-user] root and portage alternately own distcc lock files

2005-07-11 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After getting ccache to work, I set up distcc with another computer on my lan and compiled a few packages to test it out. It worked great until I tried to compile busybox, where it displayed the error message: distcc[12251] (dcc_open_lockfile)

Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new (and acceptably stable), I want it. I agree that a comprehensive list of fixed bugs and new features would be nice for each updated package, but I imagine that it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output

2005-06-29 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command /dev/null echo

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-03 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ah, sounds similar to the discussion on http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line. - --myk

[gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed a few Gentoo bugs have been closed with remarks stating: 'fixed in CVS'. However, weeks later, I still haven't seen the changes reflected in the web view of Gentoo CVS. Are the maintainers committing to a different repository? And if

Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you directed the first-stage bootloader to find root on hda1? from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10#doc_chap2 try 'grub-install /dev/hda' or 'grub' and grub root (hd0,0) (Specify where your

Re: [gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?

2005-06-02 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D'oh. I see my mistake. The bug was fixed in an eclass, not the ebuild where I was expecting it. Sorry for the noise. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:23:02 -0700 Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've noticed a few Gentoo bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-27 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run sudo after you ssh. On my network, I backup my servers by setting up sudoers on the server I want to backup and running the following command from my workstation: ssh flags user@hostname sudo dump -udumplevelf- filesystem | gzip

Re: [gentoo-user] console switching wierdness

2005-05-18 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which framebuffer module are you using? I have an nVidia card, and found that using the nVidia framebuffer resulted in ~1 sec latency when switching between virtual consoles. Removing the nVidia framebuffer and using vesafb-tng was the solution for

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes emerges fail

2005-05-10 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I find that sometimes MAKEOPTS=-j2 is the culprit. Make sometimes tries to link an executable before all of its constituent object files are compiled (this shouldn't normally happen, but maybe the structure of the Makefile isn't exactly what make