Re: [gentoo-user] hardened install

2005-08-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
James wrote: Hello, http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo/experimental/x86/hardened/livecd/ is what I'm using to install a base system, later on a complete firewall/router. The K6 booted find with the grsec-noX option, but it prompts me for a login and password right off the bat. These

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:07:52PM -0400, John Dangler wrote: Anyone know why Open Office would require USE=???hardened??? ? huh? To my knowledge, no package would REQUIRE a useflag. Or is this here to show that it can be installed in a hardened Gentoo environment? The line IUSE=

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
Wilie~ Thanks for the reply. I did leave it out. I kept reading and couldn't find anywhere except portage (and the hardened docs) where it would be necessary for anything in 'daily life'. And, the references I did find for it were all linked to PIE. The USE flags I quoted were from portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to unmerge php and mod_php

2005-08-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:44 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: Hi, I am trying to unmerge all versions of php and mod_php on my system. However: # emerge -C php mod_php dev-php/mod_php selected: 4.3.2-r5 4.3.8 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
If you really want to know what a USE flag does on a particular ebuild you have to: 1, read the ebuild and find what the USE flag switches on or off. 2, understand, from your knowledge of the package, what switching that option on or off does. for example, in openoffice: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0 [SOLVED]

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 23:35 -0600, Joseph wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:23 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:20:12 -0600, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to check what IP the device has on the network? I know the device MAC address and when I plug it IN, it obtains one

Re: [gentoo-user] config qt theme without kde?

2005-08-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
Qiangning Hong wrote: Anyone can tell me how to manually install qt themes or give me a howto URL? I did google with qt theme install but have no luck. qtconfig -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 / 15-4190-6344 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina pgp2idGRX9H9y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I burn DVD with k3b ?

2005-08-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 18:33 +0400, Makurin Roman wrote: Hi all! How can I burn dvd with k3b ? I emerge this with dvdr use flag, but what I need to do to write dvd ? 10nx Hi, Here's the description for dvdr USE-flag: $ euse -i dvdr global use flags (searching: dvdr)

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp

2005-08-28 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 22:05 -0400, John Dangler wrote: Can someone here recommend a good ftp app that I can use in gnome? Thanks. John D Hi, Try 'gftp' Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot load libc, permission denied

2005-08-28 Thread Marco Matthies
David Busby wrote: I cannot open /etc/ld.so.cache! What? See: cdrtx cdr_tx # ls -l /etc/ld.so.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18311 Aug 27 21:13 /etc/ld.so.cache Any other ideas? I reproduced your bug and diagnostics on a vmware install of gentoo exactly by doing a chmod a-x / So issuing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another geforce4 problem

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I've recently installed GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x into my gentoo box and got it working. Bootsplash, opengl and so on.. But one serious problem remains. I have 90% chance to get garbled screen right after system reboot when bios is starting hw checks. The problem goes away after a random number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Video: Firefox + VLC?

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 18:53 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: I know that Google Video is still in it's infancy, but hey, gentoo is all about bleeding-edge, right? I'm wondering if anyone has managed to get it working yet - and if so, would you be kind enough to share? I've done some

[gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread William Kenworthy
Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc? Used to on the main gentoo site but I cant find it now (and packages.gentoo.org has no stats at all) BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Saturday 27 August 2005 20:57, Roman Makurin wrote: What I need to do ? :-) I've been looking for the same thing for some days now... The good thing I just found a solution (well at least it worked for me :) ) You have to enable direct raw access in the kernel: Device Drivers ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Proposed option for etc-update

2005-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:46:53 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: ditch etc-update, dispatch-conf has backup features built in emerge gentoolkit dispatch-conf dispatch-conf is not in gentoolkit, it is part or portage. # qpkg -f `which dispatch-conf ` sys-apps/portage and while you're at it

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev read,write problem

2005-08-28 Thread Tom Eastman
Jonas Geiregat wrote: When I startup my system I need to loing as root and run chmod a+rw /dev/* else I have problems login in or starting multiple shells I'm using udev anyone got any idea what could cause the problem ? I found myself having a similar problem. It started happening after

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread Timur Aydin
Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mouse support is built into kernel (now in 2.6.13-rc7), not module, xorg has correct entry ill try live_cd, maybe find something interesting I have reinstalled gentoo 2005.1 (network install with stage1). The system is currently using devfs and

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc? You can get the total number of packages with # find $(portageq portdir) -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 -type d | wc -l 10017 To find the total

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread Erik Osterholm
On 8/28/05, Timur Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mouse support is built into kernel (now in 2.6.13-rc7), not module, xorg has correct entry ill try live_cd, maybe find something interesting I have reinstalled gentoo 2005.1 (network install with stage1).

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Firewall howto?

2005-08-28 Thread William Kenworthy
Its not just easing the pain: I am not sure that someone who is not intimately familiar with iptables doing what amounts to a home brew is advisable. There's quite a number of ways to screw up and leave your system exposed. The way to minimise the risk is to start with a known, popular,

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-28 Thread William Kenworthy
The mail gateway user guide uses a separate email account (spamtrap) for spamassassin's use. I just copy/move spam and ham to the spam or ham folders of this account - a cron job does an sa-learn on these folders. In evolution its a no brainer to dragNdrop between accounts. BillK On Sat,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 17:28 Alex написал(a): On Saturday 27 August 2005 20:57, Roman Makurin wrote: What I need to do ? :-) I've been looking for the same thing for some days now... The good thing I just found a solution (well at least it worked for me :) ) You have to

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Sergio Polini
William Kenworthy: Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc? Do you speak perl? Sorry, I don't speak python any more ;-) begin gentoo_packages.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use File::Find; use vars qw/*name/; *name =

Re: [gentoo-user] attempt at using new nvidia drivers

2005-08-28 Thread Erik Osterholm
On 8/26/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody,When I ran the program fromhttp://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0306.htmla ncurses-type window opens and offers two pre-selected choices: install the audio drivers,install the network drivers. I require neither butcan't

[gentoo-user] Tcpdump warning in emerge world -u output

2005-08-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I found this near the end of emerge -v world -u output: Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 QA Notice: ECLASS 'multilib' inherited illegally in net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.3-r 1 * Please upgrade your package (tcpdump-3.8.3-r1) to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another geforce4 problem

2005-08-28 Thread Stuart Howard
Do you have any other gfx board you can put in ? Just to identify the source of the problem, ie. gfx board or mobo Alternatively do you get the problem when booting under a liveCD of some description stu On 8/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed GeForce4

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

2005-08-28 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:05:23 -0400 John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some more reading, I decided to emerge Firefox and Thunderbird anyway... It installs fine, except it's really annoying that mousing over a menu selection turns the colors white on white... (developer's joke,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:27, Makurin Roman wrote: But I could play dvd some time ago with the same kernel. Oh! Hmm... did you install a new version of xine/libddvdcss before dvds stopped playing? did you change your configuration file? do you use raw access to your dvd device? Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcpdump warning in emerge world -u output

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:44, Harry Putnam wrote: I found this near the end of emerge -v world -u output: Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 QA Notice: ECLASS 'multilib' inherited illegally in net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.3-r 1 * Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-28 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Grant wrote: I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any way to retrieve or reset it? This is my way to solve your problem (and a lot of other problems too): Ask some guy on remote side do this: 1. Put Knoppix CD into drive and reboot 2. answer knoppix 2 to boot:

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim emerge error

2005-08-28 Thread Marco Matthies
John Dangler wrote: I just tried emerging gaim and got this error: configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests configure: error: Could not find Tcl !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!!

RE: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
I had that same problem with a stage 1 build on my laptop. My laptop also has 2 mouse inputs (glidepoint and the ibm button). I noticed the same behavior, and modprobing evdev did solve it – sort of. The random jumping only showed up once in a great while and was only a minor annoyance at that

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Open Office USE flags

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
Nick~ Thanks for the reply. Of all the sources of information possible, I didn't think of looking through the ebuild for how the flags are implemented!! I did notice that portage allows you to view the ebuild (so looking through the build script before emerging is possible). Great tip! John D

Re: [gentoo-user] openofficeq

2005-08-28 Thread Marco Matthies
John Dangler wrote: I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a moment. Open Office or the Ximianized Open Office. I read that Ximian was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 20:14 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:27, Makurin Roman wrote: But I could play dvd some time ago with the same kernel. Oh! Hmm... did you install a new version of xine/libddvdcss before dvds stopped playing? yes, xine-lib and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 20:14 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:27, Makurin Roman wrote: But I could play dvd some time ago with the same kernel. Oh! Hmm... did you install a new version of xine/libddvdcss before dvds stopped playing? did you change your

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 14:38, Makurin Roman wrote: what is it ? I can copy dvd to hard drive just put a synbolic link /dev/rdvd pointing to your dvd device (i.e. /dev/hdc) or adjust the appropriate setting in your xine configuration, it's this line media.dvd.raw_device: (in kaffeine it's on

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another geforce4 problem

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Do you have any other gfx board you can put in ? Just to identify the source of the problem, ie. gfx board or mobo Nope, I don't:( But this is an interesting idea. Thanks Stuart. Alternatively do you get the problem when booting under a liveCD of some description Same [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] OT KDE remote share ?

2005-08-28 Thread Dave S
I am giving KDE a go after being a long term fluxbox-er. I have a NFS hdd on my other machine which I mount with 'mount /mnt/archive' as root. I right clicked, behaviors, device icons and ticked a curiously named 'Mounted NFS share' and 'Unmounted NFS share' I get an icon 'Mounted Share

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with kdm

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Kirillov
After installing kde through emerge kdebase-meta and test with startx of no problem, I add xdm to default runlevel with modifying display manager to kdm in rc.conf. However when I reboot the computer, the screen turn black for a second and then up without kdm start. The log file only contain

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 22:12 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 14:38, Makurin Roman wrote: what is it ? I can copy dvd to hard drive just put a synbolic link /dev/rdvd pointing to your dvd device (i.e. /dev/hdc) or adjust the appropriate setting in your xine

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 28 August 2005 16:38, Makurin Roman wrote: В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 20:14 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:27, Makurin Roman wrote: But I could play dvd some time ago with the same kernel. Oh! Hmm... did you install a new version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 15:39, Makurin Roman wrote: I know that xine in gentoo trying to use system libs rather than included and sometimes it gives such problems. Do you have libdvdnav or libdvdread installed? AFAIK xine doesnt use these anymore, it uses its internal ones. Just a guess...

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 19:57 Volker Armin Hemmann написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 16:38, Makurin Roman wrote: В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 20:14 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 12:27, Makurin Roman wrote: But I could play dvd some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 23:25 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 15:39, Makurin Roman wrote: I know that xine in gentoo trying to use system libs rather than included and sometimes it gives such problems. Do you have libdvdnav or libdvdread installed? AFAIK xine

Re: [gentoo-user] openofficeq

2005-08-28 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:50 pm, John Dangler wrote: I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a moment. Open Office or the Ximianized Open Office. I read that Ximian was bought by

[gentoo-user] Quanta setup for cervisia?

2005-08-28 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have been using Quanta to develop a small website. Apart from a tendency to die with 'sigsegv' crashes at regular intervals, the program seems to work quite well (the recovery function always manages to recover almost all my work after a crash). I would like to import the project into

[gentoo-user] USB controller selection.

2005-08-28 Thread Rhywek
Hi, * .* I have a small problem with usb in my laptop. First I had all 3 HCD compiled in my kernel: ehci, ohci and uhci. When I connected some usb 2.0 device (hard drive or external DVD burner), there was a message in /var/log/everything/current that device is not running at full speed and that I

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread Timur Aydin
Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you using the Event interface? No. I tried enabling support for it. I have also enabled support for the Event interface debug. After booting this kernel, nothing changed. The are no syslog debug messages when I turn the wheel, so the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 18:17 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc? Used to on the main gentoo site but I cant find it now (and packages.gentoo.org has no stats at all) BillK update-eix reports the number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-28 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Frank Schafer wrote: There is no official hack to get the password out of the machine. It is nowhere stored in uncrypted form and the crypting algorithm itself is not reversable. Yes, u are right, but encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow, and therefore u can try to decrypt them (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 20:50 +0400, Makurin Roman wrote: В сообщении от Воскресенье 28 августа 2005 23:25 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 15:39, Makurin Roman wrote: I know that xine in gentoo trying to use system libs rather than included and sometimes it gives such problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-28 Thread Markus Döbele
Just uploaded laby_1.0.3 to the Sourceforge Site. Would be nice if you update the ebuild. We did a lot of bugfixing. Slowly the game is really playable :-) Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 02:14 schrieb Nick Rout: On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:36:01 +0200 Holly Bostick wrote: Since we know Nick's

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
050828 William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a link that states how many packages are available in gentoo? When I did my weekly esync yesterday, it indexed 10 350 packages. 'esync' is part of the 'esearch' package. Stable, ~x86 etc? It doesn't distinguish. If people ask or you want to give the

RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread John Dangler
Maybe it's me - I don't get it. www.gentoo-portage.com front page ... 19884 ebuilds, 9986 Packages, Last Updated At 18:07:35 GMT John D esearch | grep for the particular arch seems to retrieve an accurate number of packages for that arch, as the OP said previously... -Original

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread inferno
Hi, If it's any help: I'm using 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 kernel not a genkernel. Maybe the version of kernel on your computer is newer than the one on the live cd, try a downgrade and see if it help. Best regards Timur Aydin wrote: Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Makurin Roman
В сообщении от Понедельник 29 августа 2005 04:22 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: also, does mplayer still play dvd's? or a previous version of xine-lib? I tryed both xine-lib-1.1.0(my previous version) and xine-lib-1.1.0-r1 pgpopPhrjmrAf.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
what version of gcc are you using? http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=414forum_id=40741 By the way the only files on my system that relate to xitk are : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ locate -i xitk /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/xitk.mo /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xitk.mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Alex
On Sunday 28 August 2005 21:33, Makurin Roman wrote: В сообщении от Понедельник 29 августа 2005 04:22 Alex написал(a): On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:56, Nick Rout wrote: also, does mplayer still play dvd's? or a previous version of xine-lib? I tryed both xine-lib-1.1.0(my previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t play dvd with xine based video players

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
OK rule that out, now have you read this page? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-310644-highlight-sigsegv+xine.html On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:06:23 +0400 Makurin Roman wrote: ? ? ?? ??? 29 ??? 2005 01:54 Nick Rout ???(a): what version of gcc are you using?

RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Not sure that is an official site ... The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the size of the install media. The difference between distros is most likely little used packages, and the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Not sure that is an official site ... The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the size of the install media. The difference between

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Not sure that is an official site ... The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the size of the install media. Don't these people have

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:56:24 +0200 Markus Döbele wrote: Just uploaded laby_1.0.3 to the Sourceforge Site. Would be nice if you update the ebuild. We did a lot of bugfixing. Slowly the game is really playable :-) The new ebuild was really easy - as i have said previously just change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?

2005-08-28 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got my bright shiney (would you believe dull beige-coloured?) new toy, and I'm working on the install now. A few anxious newbie moments... - when I tried unscrewing the dialup-modem-connector cable from my old machine, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my hand, and the modem

[gentoo-user] How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone

2005-08-28 Thread Harry Putnam
I just ran an emerge world -u and at the beginning there were some errors/warnings about my lines in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided I didn't save the error but it indicate my file would be ignored. It contained dev-util/cvs app-editors/emacs-cvs I didn't want the emerge to mess with

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-28 Thread Nick Rout
OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this game please try it out. If it works OK I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?

2005-08-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
On my last few installs I have used LVM2: magic as it means you can easily and transparently resize partitions and add new drives with minimal downtime. Partition size choices are no longer such a limiting factor. Highly recommended. BillK On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:11 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Ask some guy on remote side do this: 1. Put Knoppix CD into drive and reboot 2. answer knoppix 2 to boot: prompt and hit Enter (If prompt doesn't occur, it's probably necessary to change booting order in BIOS.) 3. when root prompt #