Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /tmp/jack busy?

2008-06-28 Thread PaulNM
a plain stupid (programming) practice, so I doubt you'll run into any issues with removing the fstab entry, and so on. 3) Go back to ignoring it. I'm going to investigate #1 first as this is something that I think is left over from years ago, but maybe you or someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /tmp/jack busy?

2008-06-28 Thread PaulNM
| grep jack" since I'm not sure if lsof works on directories alone. Also, are you sure /tmp/jack is empty? Did you "ls -a" ? Thanks in advance, Mark HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread PaulNM
| Pentium fdiv bug? | Regards, Chris PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread PaulNM
ge -C colorcvs the cvs package didn't show up in the emerge -uDNp world list. For future reference, emerge has a --tree (-t) option to show what packages are pulling in others. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glsa-check question

2008-05-30 Thread PaulNM
e are installed sun-jdk-1.6.0.06 and sun-jdk-1.4.2.17 (required by eclipse-sdk-3.2), but not sun-jdk-1.5.0.15. Thanks, Marco. It's not saying what you think. Glsa-check wants to update java by downgrading it. See bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222861 PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird text message display oddities

2008-05-16 Thread PaulNM
messages "infect" responses in the thread, but I've also found cases where it doesn't, or a message in the thread reverts to normal appearance. Any ideas, because I'm completely lost on this one. Google searches just bring up stuff on html messages or cha

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
losetup won't work for that Read the link again, yes it will. Specifically he needs the offset option. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing lomount

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
see: http://www.nabble.com/%22loopback-mount%22-hard-drive-image-created-with-dd--td14945355.html PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
factor correction. Luckily for my Silencer 750 Quad according to the manufacturer due to the short time in which the UPS is in use it is not an issue. -Arthur PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] guest additions for vbox-1.6 gentoo guest on xp host

2008-05-13 Thread PaulNM
, with 1.5.4 being the latest stable (x86 and amd64) version. (app-emulation/virtualbox-additions is in the tree) Note two things though: 1: Everything I suggested refers to inside the guest OS, and 2: my info is from version 1.5.4_OSE. It's possible the vboxadd-client script is different i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output confusion regarding upgradeable packages

2008-05-12 Thread PaulNM
In any case, they should all show up with -d. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] emerge output confusion regarding upgradeable packages

2008-05-11 Thread PaulNM
e shows the only instances of dnspython/xcursorgen/yasm in the entire output (checked with grep). The "upgraders" (dnspython, xcursorgen, yasm) are not in world, nor is xvid. The three packages (bittorrent, xcursor-themes, mplayer) at the top of the trees are in world. Two of the three are direct dependencies of packages in world, so they should show as upgradeable even without --deep. What am I missing/doing wrong? PaulNM -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Chroot question

2007-11-22 Thread PaulNM
ould be used, suitably modified, to > chroot from my x86_64 bit distro to my x86 distro. Will it mess up one > or the other? > > Tony > You should be fine as long as you ignore the installation steps. Just make sure you have the proper options in the 64 bit kernel and use the prop

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and portage tree

2007-11-10 Thread PaulNM
every machine. PaulNM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Distcc borkage: Connection reset by peer

2007-06-05 Thread PaulNM
as I can tell should work. No firewalls are in place for testing, distccd port is open on all three (confirmed with nmap), and I'm out of ideas on where to look for problems. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. PaulNM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Japanese Support

2007-06-02 Thread PaulNM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a howto for Japanese support in Gentoo? > > > How about http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese ? PaulNM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for a minimalistic system

2007-01-19 Thread PaulNM
er tried Ratpoison, but on my lower-power systems I use xfce, which isn't too bad. If I want to really minimize resource usage I go with Windowmaker. Thanks in advance, Vlad HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is there a gcc-4.1.1 alternative?

2007-01-13 Thread PaulNM
t helps. In my case there was a gentoo-sources update at the same time, so I just let that build and restarted. > 4499 root 18 0 132m 35m 416 R 1.5 60.2 8:41.94 cc1 According to this cc1 is only using 1.5% of cpu, and about 60% of ram. What does "free" give you, and doe

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Emerge Net Connect Error

2007-01-12 Thread PaulNM
. If emerge still fails, I'd try adding them to the host file with whatever ip you get from pinging as a workaround. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-24 Thread PaulNM
ve problem. HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP: ntp-client doesn't start

2006-11-07 Thread PaulNM
little better than most since you are doing daily syncs and not hourly or 4x a day, but do you have any idea how many people set up syncs at midnight? Use a daemon, it'll do a better job keeping your system in sync and be much nicer on all the ntp servers you're syncing again

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb question

2006-10-12 Thread PaulNM
ning. Is it possible to tell the kernel to re-run init, and how? PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

2006-10-11 Thread PaulNM
old version of python is still on your system from when there was an ebuild for it. I'd suggest "emerge -p --depclean" to see if it would remove it. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM problem

2006-09-30 Thread PaulNM
spins down the disks. It may or may not turn off some hardware like the net card. Ram is still powered and the machine is still on. Suspend to RAM as I understand it is much deeper, ram and cpu are just about all that is powered up. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fsck.ext3 error (only sometimes)

2006-09-11 Thread PaulNM
Hi all, I've come across a weird issue. The other day I decided that it's been a while since I've had a good read/write badblocks run through fsck.ext3 on all my partitions. The problem is with /dev/hdb1 , normally mounted on my Gentoo system as /olddeb since it's a small install of Debian

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine

2006-08-27 Thread PaulNM
nce the install, despite several kernel upgrades. HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] burning audiocd with k3b

2006-08-10 Thread PaulNM
ge cdrecord, or even k3b, but I'd try the other things first. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR

2006-07-21 Thread PaulNM
t. > > 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good > docs for VDR. > Hey all, The latest Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060717-newsletter.xml Has info about "The Gentoo Video Disk Recorder (VDR) project", with a link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vdr/ The second link lists an irc channel as well. HTH, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

2006-07-21 Thread PaulNM
the crap from previous KDE versions, etc., and it worked > fine. I agree, I had issues with getting X setup on a new machine, and thought that was the problem (refcount). The issue was fixed, and X works, but I still get that error. I even get that message on my Debian Etch machine! I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] A directory name with spaces in it?

2006-07-21 Thread PaulNM
st few letters. If more than one file/directory matches, it'll show you all the matching examples. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ?

2006-07-21 Thread PaulNM
he world file, and 2: the package is not a dependency, direct or indirect, of a package in the world file. To see if any meet those, run "emerge -p --depclean", and if necessary, add them to the world file or remove them. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread PaulNM
t'll be a long list. > 3. It seems that I have 22 (2305 - 2283 = 22) packages that are > slotted. How can I check this? > "emerge -p --prune world" will show you, but don't run it without the -p option, you may very well need some of those. > Thanks. > > --- Vladimir > PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem to decode and play mp3

2006-07-15 Thread PaulNM
from cd's, or are these other files you already have? Are you able to play the mp3 files themselves? If you go to http://creativecommons.org/audio and download an mp3, does it play properly? Or, is it that mp3's are fine, but when you convert them to something else, problems occur? I

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 reboot/shutdown as a normal user

2006-04-06 Thread PaulNM
o-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xfce4#Shutdown_or_reboot for how to do that. I'd suggest reading the whole wiki article as well, for other tips. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox + Thunderbird 1.5

2006-03-31 Thread PaulNM
Hi All, I had looked into this awhile ago, but put it aside. Does anyone know anything about the status of Firefox 1.5 final and Thunderbird 1.5 final as far as getting into stable? Also, are any of the ~x86 ebuilds the final version, as opposed to a 1.5 beta? I see a mention in a bug repo

Re: [gentoo-user] ogle fails to read dvd

2006-01-22 Thread PaulNM
e without a dvd. Can you mount the dvd normally and see the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories? Also make sure the dvd isn't mounted already when running ogle because that won't work. Hope this helps, PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread PaulNM
Trenton Adams wrote: I've never specified -p, so I think it must be default, because I always have permissions preserved when I use tar. Perhaps this is a GNU tar default setting? I believe it may be a default for root, but would put it in anyway to be safe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] Python - !!! Failed to complete python imports.

2005-10-27 Thread PaulNM
Maybe getting the stage and extracting it in a temporary folder will work. Then you could just copy over the files that you need. It's better than my idea of just finding python sources online and manually compiling it. ' PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird, clamscan, mbox-maildir

2005-09-01 Thread PaulNM
same message. Any ideas? , PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list