[gentoo-user] Seeking advise for gentoo install/upgrade

2006-11-18 Thread Sathish Vasudevaiah
I have a bit of a situation as I plan to do upgrade/install gentoo for the following systems: (All these systems are currently running gentoo (2.6.11) with the portage snapshot of 20051009) System Processor./HW some info. [1] Cyrix c7 Runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery

2006-11-18 Thread Ralph Slooten
So if a mail is sent to A and B and only A is a valid user, both copies go to postmaster? Exactly. This wasn't a problem as one employee would sift through the postmaster email every day, that was until spammers started spamming randomly generated addresses at their domain. She received all

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-18 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:35:28 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: either. As an extra bonus eupdatedb (which does look go through the vdb too) is a lot slower that its eix equivalent (update-eix). ;) So can anyone mention any advantage of esearch compared to eix? I like

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erik wrote: I had this problem for a while as well. Adding 'noapic' to my boot options fixed it for me. I think it's a problem with certain motherboards, like the Asus M2NPV-VM. Thank you Erik. That worked and allowed me to boot with the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Resize /

2006-11-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alexander Skwar wrote: snip The advantage of EVMS over LVM in this case would be, that he wouldn't have to reformat/repartition and would still be able to resize the partition/filesystem, wouldn't he? snip Yes, with reiserfs, this can be done. But also with

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Sergio Polini
Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer that you haven't synced yet. I apologize for my delay. What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync? Are

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer that you haven't synced yet. I apologize for my delay.

Re: [gentoo-user] How come my 'esearch' isn't updated when I emerge something until the next 'esync'?!

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Robert Cernansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eix gives following output on the same request: $ eix -cA app-misc/screen [I] app-misc/screen (4.0.2-r5): Screen is a full-screen ... [N] app-misc/screenie (): Screenie is a small and ... Hmm, eix 0.8.1 on my system produces: [N]

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS vs ext3

2006-11-18 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [06-11-17 09:10]: In ( what seems like ) similar situatoins, I've just let the partition that I want to share b/w OSes just be a NTFS partition if say, I were dual-booting my machine ( Linux Windows ). IMHO, Linux support for NTFS is fine, meaning that I've not

Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync

2006-11-18 Thread Sergio Polini
Michael Sullivan: On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer that you haven't synced yet. I

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge blender

2006-11-18 Thread frank
Hi, I returned to gentoo to be able to install blender 2.4*. Well, the ebuild is there, but ... emerge blender ... g++ -pipe -funsigned-char -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -DGAMEBLENDER=1 -DUSE_BULLET -DUSE_SUMO_SOLID -DNDEBUG -DFTGL_STATIC_LIBRARY -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/FTGL

[gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge fails): !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy gnome-base/gnome-libs have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: -

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
[Subject corrected to gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked?] --- Vladimir On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 21:28 -0800, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: When I run 'emerge -Davu world' I get this message (and the emerge fails): !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy gnome-base/gnome-libs have

[gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I am annoyed with using vfat on my USB flash drives because I cannot get proper permissions and ownership. Not for the security (meaningless on a drive that easy to steal, unless encrypted), but annoying anyway. Is there any technical reason I should not repartition it as something else -- ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems getting started with vmware

2006-11-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:05:09AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Walter, did you actually get a license somehow? When I look on their pages unders `product licensing'. A `VMware Product Licensing' page appears with no real indication of which license or even what product is being

Re: [gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Ryan Tandy
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I am annoyed with using vfat on my USB flash drives because I cannot get proper permissions and ownership. Not for the security (meaningless on a drive that easy to steal, unless encrypted), but annoying anyway. Is there any technical reason I should not repartition it as

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same response as gtkdiff. Do you actually use them? If not, why do you care? Apologies for the out-of-context line that should have been removed before I clicked send. Call it a case of email Tourrettes. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Reformat/repartition USB flash drive to ext2/3?

2006-11-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember reading somewhere that one shouldn't use a journalling file system on flash-based devices such as USB drives (i.e. you should use ext2 rather than ext3), but I can't find the reference right now. Can anyone clarify this for me?