Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:17:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a > > > bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of > > > trouble a few times. > > > > Wa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails

2009-08-07 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 09:41:58 Stroller wrote: > On 4 Aug 2009, at 00:07, Shawn Haggett wrote: > > ... > > This has been broken for over a week now (normally I just wait, > > resync and > > these things go away if they're an ebuild problem) but I'm starti

[gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails

2009-08-03 Thread Shawn Haggett
Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following happens: sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-tv/mytht

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-17 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > > G'day, > > > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my > > new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. > > Right after

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake MAC Address Bungling Wireless

2009-02-15 Thread Shawn Haggett
daid kahl wrote: 2009/2/15 daid kahl mailto:daid...@gmail.com>> )On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:05 +0900, daid kahl wrote: > I was bored and playing around with macchanger to change my Wireless > MAC address, and wireless has not worked since, even though I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?

2009-01-28 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 17:14:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there some automated way to remove the packages I created with > 'quickpkg' and reside inside /usr/portage/packages without doing it by > hand? I don't mean 'eclean'. That won't remove those that are installed. You want to get r

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-01-21 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:37:23 pm Grant wrote: > Do cnn.com videos *not* crash for anyone with the latest Firefox? > This one for example: > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html > > ? > > - Grant I couldn't see any videos on that page... although the one at: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?

2009-01-20 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:00 pm Grant Edwards wrote: > Of course that's not be the same > thing as "practical" for some machines (I believe my OOo emerge > just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much > further it's go to go, but as long as it's done in a week or so > that'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] tif libraries being ignored

2009-01-11 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:59:47 pm Ted Miller wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Ted Miller wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Things work pretty well EXCEPT that the KDE based applications cannot > > > handle *.tif files. I have the media-libs/tiff package emerged, but > > > for some reason the KDE subsystem does no

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH login with both key AND password?

2009-01-07 Thread Shawn Haggett
Dave Jones wrote: Paul Hartman wrote on 08/01/09 00:28: Hi, Normally I'm using SSH with regular password login, and I've read about generating a keypair and having a password-less connection that way. Is there a way to require both the key AND a password? Basically if I put the key in my SSH cl

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

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
Andrey Vul wrote: I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ Professional/shared/vLite.iso ... cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. I'm not familiar with cdrecord, but have you tried this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-04 Thread Shawn Haggett
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On December 3, 2008, Steve wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: well. Nobody but you knows your requiremens and specifics - we're just listing options. It's up to you to either take 'em or leave 'em ;) Fair enough - but I've still not found an option for sharing/using share

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-30 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Troeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > You can buy so called "archival grade" DVD-Rs that should work for 10-20 > > y

Re: [gentoo-user] Java "bad version number" - what to up/downgrade?

2008-11-17 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:56:57 pm Grant wrote: >> I'm getting the following from dumphd: >> >> "bad version number in .class file" >> >> I gather that I may have the wrong version of something Java installed >> but I don't know how that works. Can anyone tell me what package I >> should try upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Java "bad version number" - what to up/downgrade?

2008-11-17 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:04:53 pm Grant wrote: > I'm getting the following from dumphd: > > "bad version number in .class file" > > I gather that I may have the wrong version of something Java installed > but I don't know how that works. Can anyone tell me what package I > should try upgrading or do

Re: [gentoo-user] mtune=k6-2 and a *small* upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Shawn Haggett
Anthony Metcalf wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Now the existing system should work with your new hardware and you can update your CFLAGS and 'emerge -e world' at your leisure. That's the theory at least anyway :-) Well, exactly. That is the theory. I want to know the likelihood of success. I

Re: [gentoo-user] what is "a normal rsync"?

2008-03-11 Thread Shawn Haggett
Grant Edwards wrote: I'm behind a firewall that doesn't allow rsync connections, so I did a emege-webrsync. It appears to have downloaded and installed a current snapshot and updated the portage cache: sent 9492088 bytes received 762706 bytes 585988.23 bytes/sec total size is 152597091 s

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Haggett
CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. This means that the CPU doesn't have to spend as much time switching between processes. However it also means tha

Re: [gentoo-user] DMZ on an vmware gentoo guest running on winXP host

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Haggett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setup: Home Lan with principle desktop machine running Gentoo. Three other machines running WinXP that are a trio of video and sound editing machines. And finally my wifes WinXP machine in antoher room. All connected by Gigabit lan thru a netgear FVP318 router/firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Shawn Haggett
Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work? How have you setup the passwordless ssh? If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

2007-08-12 Thread Shawn Haggett
Sven Köhler wrote: emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to recompiled to link against the new libexpat. For me, i

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I don't sync my portage everyday, I do it when I need a special > (last) version of package or when I'm preparing a big update... > > But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause > maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't know how to find it..

[gentoo-user] clamd / amavisd email virus scanning problem

2006-12-14 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I've got amavisd setup with postfix for spam/virus filtering. However I'm noticing in my logs an error: Dec 15 14:20:27 [amavis] (28224-17) ClamAV-clamd: Can't send to socket /var/amavis/clamd: Transport endpoint is not connected, retrying (1) No

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking out of a chroot

2006-11-12 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Davis wrote: > Hey folks, > > I will be running my apache2 server in a chroot. Most of my data for the > server (e.g. pictures, user webpages) are on another partition from my > chroot. I don't want to move all that data into the apache chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Boinc under Gentoo

2006-09-01 Thread Shawn Haggett
Frank Jahn wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a strange behavior in my BOINC client. > > All projects tell me that the platform 'i386-pc-linux-gnu' was not found. > > I might add, that I am quite new to Gentoo (not Linux in general) and > just installed 2006.0 > > Thanks in advance ;) What is your CH

Re: [gentoo-user] .keep

2006-08-21 Thread Shawn Haggett
Philip Webb wrote: > 060821 Shaochun Wang wrote: >> Does anyone know the function of .keep file in a directory? > > It prevents the dir from being deleted by a script, > eg esp during a package update. > I believe it is to do with how tar handles directories. If there are no files in a dir, tar w

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-06-07 Thread Shawn Haggett
Mohammed Hagag wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Spot the difference? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Shawn Haggett
James wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey athabascau.ca> writes: > >> since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. >> require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to >> bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely >> go ahead and do >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDM and portage

2006-02-11 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 21:14, Harm Geerts wrote: >> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:45, Daniel D Jones wrote: >>> I have kdebase-3.5.1-r1 installed. Why is kdm-3.5.1 blocked? Surely >>> kdebase is a requirement for kdm

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-11 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Riosa wrote: > Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I think that I have run out of partitions: >> >> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dsichelp/ds6000ic/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.storage.smric.help.doc/f2c_linuxscsilimit_2hsag9.html >> >> Altho

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 20:20, Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour': >> I recently installed the unstable version of portage. >>

[gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed the unstable version of portage (2.1_pre4-r1) so I could get access to the logging facilities (specifically having it send me emails of information instead of needing to watch the emerge output). However a recent 'emerge -Duva wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does portage want to downgrade?

2006-02-06 Thread Shawn Haggett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Nebinger wrote: > Here's the skinny: > > I updated iptables from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5 this weekend. Everything's cool. > > Next 'emerge --update --deep world' wants to downgrade iptables back to > 1.3.4. > > So I add '--tree' to see what package wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method

2005-12-10 Thread Shawn Haggett
as a raid set, i.e. it's not true hardware raid. Shawn Haggett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I've found that it'll often takes longer to get DNS resolution than content over my connection, so I thought a caching DNS server the way to go. With that in mind, I installed BIND. I couldn't find anything like a quickie Gentoo example of

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
Peper wrote: New debug info: when locked up my pc responses to ping and ssh connection(I get only login respone, i cannot actually log in). Moreover ssh logs "sshd: fatal: Timeout before authentication for IP". I am not sure what to think about it... I had a similar thing happen with min

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-17 Thread Shawn Haggett
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? Thanks! 'od | diff' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: sendmail blocked by ssmtp...

2005-07-22 Thread Shawn Haggett
Jarry wrote: Hi, I wanted to emerge "sendmail" (for a few reasons I don't want to use other MTA), and I see, that it is blocked by "ssmtp". Because I did not installed it, it must have been emerged as a dependency of some other package. Q1: Is it possible to find, which package depends on ssmt