Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread 443-653-1569
Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB -- _jsn --

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think:

[gentoo-user] inkscape crashed when open/save file

2008-01-23 Thread zou
Hello, everyone! I emerged inkscape recently. The emerging process finished without error-liked output, but, when I try to open or save a SVG file, inkscape crashes with an Internal Error. In the file saving case, the file was saved into disk although a crash had happened. There are some

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error

2008-01-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: OK. Got that done too. Still downloading by the way. :/ Also, I didn't have qt 4.4 installed before. It was unmasked and pulled in when I ran autounmask and emerge -uvDN world. Is that going to be a problem for others? Dale :-) :_) Well, now I get this: [blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error

2008-01-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Dale wrote: OK. Got that done too. Still downloading by the way. :/ Also, I didn't have qt 4.4 installed before. It was unmasked and pulled in when I ran autounmask and emerge -uvDN world. Is that going to be a problem for others? Dale :-) :_) Well, now

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread reader
James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 22, 2008 2:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have spoken too soon. Re-installing mysql got me to where I can login to the console but the suggested commands still fail: # mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor.

[gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I guess... not surprisingly the bookmark page now works too? One lingering mysql command that is printed when the bookmarks page configuration steps is gone through: From bookmarks page: [...] After completing the configuration, create useraccounts with the

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James
KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 8:03 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 6:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ls -al /var/lib/mysql drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 1752 Jan 22 15:55 mysql drwx-- 2 mysql mysql 48 Jan 22 15:55 test It struck me odd that /var/lib/mysql has another directory inside with the same name... but that was how the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 7:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I guess... not surprisingly the bookmark page now works too? One lingering mysql command that is printed when the bookmarks page configuration steps is gone through: From bookmarks page: [...] After

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James
James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: OK, try doing: emerge --metadata Also, have you done a emerge --sync since this started? Sounds like it might just be a cache corruption - if the cache was corrupted during the rsync process in an emerge--sync, then just doing a emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Dale
James wrote: SNIP Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine? Any other ideas? James http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:26:16 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: Yeah, I've seen that happen quite a bit with computers - someone is having a problem (consistently, too), they call in the computer tech, and it starts working perfectly as soon as the tech is there... :) A hypothesis of mine is that (at

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 122, in __iter__ st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' Well here is the problem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:39:51 + (UTC), James wrote: ideas? fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the filesystem is screwed. -- Neil Bothwick You shall know the truth, and you shall freak. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] building with off_t set as long long

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Would anyone know whether it is possible to emerge a package setting off_t as long long? The particular case is the library gdbm. The default emerge sets off_t to 4 bytes therefore file sizes can only be about 2GB. Setting off_t to 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about Google Browser Sync? http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ What about across browsers other than firefox? Like Konqueror or opera. Anyone with experiece using some online bookmark manager that stores and merges

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd hazard a guess that you may have hit a bigger problem than your comment indicates. I'm pretty sure there would be great pressure to use `quick and dirty hacks' to get stuff done when devs are nearly always overworked. Actually, they IMHO

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: ideas? fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the filesystem is screwed. Roger that. Here's an idea, since it's a minimal firewall, that I'm currently using, and scp works. dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Dusek
Please mention this kind of thing on the talk page. I will go ahead and post your email this time, as well as make the necessary changes. -- _jsn -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd hazard a guess that you may have hit a bigger problem than your comment indicates. I'm pretty sure there would be great pressure to use `quick and dirty hacks' to get stuff done when devs

[gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, About KDE 4.0.0. I have formerly reported that konsole would crash on startup and kamil would not start at all. It's all solved by now. The problem with konsole was all my fault. I crated the test user for KDE4 without a shell. ;-( Dunno, how this could have happened but it did. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Haredned Gentoo on 64 Bit Xeon

2008-01-23 Thread James
dexters84 dexters84 at gmail.com writes: It will be my first hardened setup, and first 64 bit setup so if You have any experience in those areas, or know something that I should know before I begin - let me know. Here are a few bookmarks that I have collected:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:19 + (UTC), James wrote: dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? No, because it will copy the corruption

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:38 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: So the stumbling blocks for using KDE 4.0.0 as my default desktop have disappeared. Unfortunately, I won't have much time tomorrow. So over Friday and the weekend, I will try to make KDE4 my default desktop after backing up all stuff like

[gentoo-user] urxvtd segfaulting (no idea why)

2008-01-23 Thread forgottenwizard
Recently (as in the last day or two), I have started to have problems with urxvtd. I'm currently running version 8.9 (~x86), but on to the problem itself. I have had problems with urxvtd segfaulting after opening a terminal, then closing it. It doesn't spit out an error that I have seen (running

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? No, because it will copy the corruption too.

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvtd segfaulting (no idea why)

2008-01-23 Thread Marcin Dzierzkowski
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:56:42 -0600 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently (as in the last day or two), I have started to have problems with urxvtd. I'm currently running version 8.9 (~x86), but on to the problem itself. I have had problems with urxvtd segfaulting after opening a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:38 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: So the stumbling blocks for using KDE 4.0.0 as my default desktop have disappeared. Unfortunately, I won't have much time tomorrow. So over Friday and the weekend, I will try to make KDE4

Re: [gentoo-user] urxvtd segfaulting (no idea why)

2008-01-23 Thread forgottenwizard
On 21:37 Wed 23 Jan , Marcin Dzierzkowski wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:56:42 -0600 forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently (as in the last day or two), I have started to have problems with urxvtd. I'm currently running version 8.9 (~x86), but on to the problem itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM

[gentoo-user] problem printing photos

2008-01-23 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I'm having a real problem getting photos to print. I'm using HP Deskjet 3845, with the hpijs driver set to (600dpi, photo, full bleed, photo + color cartridge, photo paper) and CUPS 1.2.12. I've been trying to print from digikam, but I've had the same problem from other software. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 + (UTC), James wrote: No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:34:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5 (because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to point to .kde3.5 again. tongue-in-cheek Neil, you just did a bad bad bad thing. You

[gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread reader
My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the family to view. When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I hate to have to just record it from the screen. I'm pretty sure firefox is

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the family to view. When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it in quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and I hate to

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:04 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the family to view. When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it

[gentoo-user] [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Wanting to be able to see online videos that want quicktime to be installed, what applications do I need to emerge? Googling like: site:gentoo.org display quicktime in firefox Turns up dozens of hits but it appears very many of them are really just showing the USE flag quicktime and not about

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from there. No, but I thought it might be easier to get the file out of wherever firefox does this... is that not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:19:14 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanting to be able to see online videos that want quicktime to be installed, what applications do I need to emerge? Googling like: site:gentoo.org display quicktime in firefox Turns up dozens of hits but it appears very many

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread reader
Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: net-www/mplayerplug-in Thanks... downloading now -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's been solid for the entire time. Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
Ahh, but it won't last... $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 20598242044512 15312 0 37636 50868 -/+ buffers/cache: 1956008 103816 Swap: 428930812290243060284 Now this I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-23 Thread Tom
Remy Blank wrote: Yahya Mohammad wrote: # losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage # fdisk -l /dev/loop0 (example) Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:22:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from there. No, but I thought it might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Joseph
On 01/23/08 16:39, James wrote: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' Well here is the problem: in '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage' drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1480 Jan 10 13:41 net-www ?? ? ?? ?? net-zope drwxrwsr-x

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 / kmail / konsole

2008-01-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:34:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You shouldn't need to do that. I found when I went back to KDE 3.5 (because Claws Mail wasn't working) that it reset the .kde symlink to point to .kde3.5 again. tongue-in-cheek Neil, you just did a