[gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge

2008-01-25 Thread David Relson
I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to compare it with emerge. For my periodic update world runs the two programs seem functionally comparable. Paludis is, however, more verbose and I'm not liking that aspect. My typical emerge command is emerge -auDtqv world and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble

2008-02-14 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:04:59 +0100 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a upgrade but I'm not sure. I can't seem to start or stop mailman... # /etc/init.d/mailman stop * Stopping mailman ...

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:14:58 + Mike Williams wrote: Hey all, I need a laptop. But the requirements are slightly odd. This is for a machine to stay in our colo cage for use as a barcode scanner, serial interface, basic GUI, and ssh server management console, etc. It needs to have USB

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:29:58 + Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 22:58:13 David Relson wrote: Have you thought about a PS/2 to USB adapter?  I'm presently using a PS/2 keyboard _and_ a PS/2 mouse connected to a single USB port (with a Y adapter -- dual PS/2 inputs

Re: OT: Cheap PS2/USB keyboard/mouse adaptors. WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-15 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:58 + Stroller wrote: On 15 Feb 2008, at 01:21, David Relson wrote: ... Here in Michigan they seem a bit pricey, as well. A single PS/2 to USB adapter is a few dollars but the dual PS/2 to USB Y adapter is $16.00 (or worse). I had hoped to use one

Re: [gentoo-user] Bogofilter under Thunderbird

2008-03-13 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:47:43 +0100 cypherstrong wrote: Hi, Do you know how in gentoo, use bogofilter under thunderbird ? This program work great on kmail or evolution, but thunderbird have it's own filter, I don't really like it. How can I plug bogofilter ? Is they a plugins, or a pop3

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting disk image

2008-04-07 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:38:54 +0100 Stroller wrote: On 6 Apr 2008, at 22:03, pat wrote: ... I have a question about mounting disk image as the disk. I have disk image which was created using: dd if=/dev/sda of=./file.iso and the sda contained two partitions sda1 and sda2. I know,

Re: [gentoo-user] Crippled system

2008-04-16 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:57:59 -0400 Richard Marzan wrote: I had a circular dep problem with mktemp and coreutils and emerge -C'd coreutils. Now I can't do anything significant just cd. how can i repair this? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Perhaps a quickpkg of coreutils

Re: [gentoo-user] ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-28 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008, James wrote: Hello, I've been using FTDI's usb-serial converters for a few years now with great success. I use one of those gadgets. Wonderful devices, they always JustWorked(tm) Indeed, they are

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 02 May 2008 11:25:41 +0200 Wolf Canis wrote: Brandon Mintern wrote: ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the checking for lines (the configuration step). Yes, you are right, but I thought that

[gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small programs and compiles them. I can see how caching compilation info would help with this. I ran a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] march=k8 for AthlonX2?

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:12:03 +0100 Neil Walker wrote: Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Omg, we really can use march=native ?? That would be great if true. Yes, as long as you are using a recent version of gcc which has support for it. I think it came in with gcc 4.2. 4.2 seems right. 4.1.2 is the

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading kernel from 2.6.25.1to 2.6.26_rc1

2008-05-17 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 May 2008 13:54:09 +0200 Marko Kocić wrote: 2008/5/14 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: Perhaps the output of dmesg and the relevant bits of messages from the init process will be required here Yes, I'll have to

[gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread David Relson
When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report recommends run python-updater when updating to python 2.5 It's been a while since I upgraded to python-2.5 and removed python-2.4. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging vte

2008-05-18 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:35:22 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: When I run emerge vte I get an access violation, just like bug #219211 x11-libs/vte-0.16.13 ACCESS VIOLATION during compilation describes. The bug report

[gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread David Relson
. When I run modprobe vmnet, it reports: FATAL: Error inserting vmnet (/lib/modules/2.6.25-gentoo-r4/misc/vmnet.ko): Invalid module format What detail am I missing about building vmnet.ko ?? Thanks. David -- David Relson Osage Software Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:46 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:12 -0400, David Relson wrote: Greetings, I've got vmware-server installed on my AMD64x2 workstation with kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r4. It used to work fine with kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r9. My current

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:42:50 -0400 Andrey Falko wrote: ...[snip]... Attempted to upgrade vmware-modules from 1.0.0.15-r1 to 1.0.0.17-r1 and found it blocked by vmware-server-1.0.5.80187: emerge --oneshot vmware-modules Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:23:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: David - at this point I'd try a couple of things. Since you've upgraded your linux-headers, it's a good idea to recompile your system libc, as per the elog message. Also, since you're getting version error messages, recompile your

[gentoo-user] SOLVED [was: vmware problem]

2008-06-13 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:06:01 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:16 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:23:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: David - at this point I'd try a couple of things. Since you've upgraded your linux-headers, it's a good idea

[gentoo-user] codec read/write errors

2008-06-29 Thread David Relson
I just noticed that my secondary gentoo machine has a /var/log/messages file of some 600+ MB. Most of the lines are: Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure writing to cs5535 codec Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure reading codec reg 0x7a,Last value=0x7a80 and it's adding another 20 or so such lines

[gentoo-user] SOLVED [ was: codec read/write errors ]

2008-06-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:13:20 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover David Relson squawked: Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure writing to cs5535 codec Jun 29 12:53:02 fpc Failure reading codec reg 0x7a,Last value=0x7a80 I've got no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-29 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:13:08 -0500 Greg Lindstrom wrote: ..[snip]... I'm not sure what you are asking here. $ ls -l /usr/bin/env lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/env - /bin/env $ ls -l /usr/bin/python lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 18 2006 /usr/bin/python - python2.4 This

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-17 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:44:14 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:16 -0400, Dennis Taylor wrote: I have been trying to update a gentoo system that I had not touched for around a year. I managed to mangle some things, and the latest was a complaint about a file in portage.

Re: [gentoo-user] awstats

2007-09-09 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Jason Carson wrote: I've installed awstats on my server but when I go to access them from http://canuckster.org/awstats/awstats.pl it says... Forbidden You don't have permission to access /awstats/awstats.pl on this server What do I do? Hi Jay,

[gentoo-user] ASUS M2A-VM HDMI woes

2007-09-18 Thread David Relson
Well, I've done it this time :- It seemed time to upgrade from my AthlonXP so I bought a new motherboard (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI), cpu (AMD 64 X2 5000), and memory (2GB DDR2 800). With all the new hardware, my hopes were high!! Then I removed the old mobo/cpu/ram from this workstation and

Re: [gentoo-user] ASUS M2A-VM HDMI woes

2007-09-18 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:49:08 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: David Relson schrieb: ...[snip]... Problem 2 - video. The ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 seems to have only minimal support (VGA - 640x480x8) using the latest drivers in portage, i.e. ati-drivers-8.40.4. I figured I could get at least

[gentoo-user] New mobo and USB problems

2007-09-22 Thread David Relson
Greetings, I've got a brand new ASUS M2A-VM HDMI motherboard, with AMD 690G northbridge and ATI SB600 southbridge. The on-board video is now working (using the vesa driver) and DMA is working for the IDE drive. Not yet working is USB. As shown below, lspci reports ATI Technologies SB600 USB,

[gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-22 Thread David Relson
Now that my old AthlonXP mobo has been replaced by an AMD 64 X2 mobo, it's time for upgrading CHOST :- According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml after a couple of changes to /etc/make.conf, i.e. from: USE=x86 ... CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:16:03 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: ...[snip]... Besides what everyone else has already suggested, I would suggest backing up everything beforehand, or you can continue using your 32-bit environment with your shiny new 64-bit processor, but you will not be able to use any

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST

2007-09-24 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:17:53 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: Neil Bothwick schrieb: ...[snip]... Unpacking a stage 3 tarball on top of a working system is a good way of converting it to a non-working system. It will also overwrite many of your settings in /etc. If you are going to use a

[gentoo-user] font corruption ???

2007-09-26 Thread David Relson
My wife uses my gentoo workstation with Open Office Writer to prepare documents for my son's Boy Scout troop and has encountered printing problems. The environment is cups-1.2.10-r1, openoffice-bin-2.3.0, xorg-x11-7.2, xorg-server-1.3.0.0, etc. After starting OOw, the first document (typically a

Re: [gentoo-user] font corruption ???

2007-09-27 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:09:56 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 9/27/07, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never encountered this problem and have no solution. But may be it's possible to work around this problem by exporting to PDF and printing from a PDF viewer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:19:57 +0800 Jed R. Mallen wrote: Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new

[gentoo-user] re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-09 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:30:24 -0600 »Q« wrote: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:05:18 +, Guanqun Lu wrote: We can't expect that all the Gentoo users should be a linux geek first, and then have a try on Gentoo linux sytem. Why not? Gentoo is aimed

[gentoo-user] genkernel problems

2007-11-11 Thread David Relson
Are the genkernel messages below caused by bash 3.2's new improved conditional expression processing? If so, anybody have a fix? Thanks. David genkernel --menuconfig all /usr/share/genkernel/gen_funcs.sh: line 96: [: : integer expression expected /usr/share/genkernel/gen_funcs.sh: line

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc unmerged by accident (solved)

2007-11-17 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:56:02 +0900 William Kenworthy wrote: I stand corrected. BillK On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:30:17 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Also, dont the current livecd's do a stage 3 install, which means there

Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-18 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200 ~/Timur Aydin wrote: Hello, How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system is rebuilt

[gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-25 Thread David Relson
This morning I decided that it's finally time up update Gentoo to match the new mobo CPU installed several months ago. First 2 attempts to boot from the LiveCD complained of an X configuration error. This didn't seem quite right as the video is simply the ASUS M2A-VM HDMI's on mobo video.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-25 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:51:09 + Neil Walker wrote: David Relson wrote: I've gotten this same NMI error the last 4 times I've booted -- even using a second copy of the 2007.0 LiveCD that I happened to have Given that you have stated that you want a command line, dump the LiveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:53:42 -0500 Aaron Clark wrote: Yoav Luft wrote: Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 LiveCD 2007.0 problem

2007-11-26 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:45:59 -0500 Andrey Vul wrote: Kernel panics can be due to bad ram. Try loading the memtest86 kernel and leave your computer on for a couple of days. If ram's ok, then the kernel panic could be something else. -- Andrey Vul True, panics can be caused by bad ram. This

[gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread David Relson
$$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry:

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-30 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:50:55 + Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:40:17 -0600, Dale wrote: equery belongs file name Or, if you want the result quickly, qfile file name qfile is part of portage-utils. -- Neil Bothwick Indeed it is faster! Thanks. David -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-30 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:40:17 -0600 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:03 +0100 Marc Joliet wrote: ..[snip].. Relevant snip from the manpage: depends local-opts pkgspec This command displays all dependencies matching pkgspec. local

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:

2007-11-30 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:52:03 +0100 Marc Joliet wrote: ..[snip].. Relevant snip from the manpage: depends local-opts pkgspec This command displays all dependencies matching pkgspec. local-opts is either or both of: -a, --all-packages search in all

[gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-01 Thread David Relson
/etc/init.d/apache2 start runs without any output /etc/init.d/apache2 status then reports: * status: stopped Looking up localhost Making HTTP connection to localhost Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:12:33 + Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Relson wrote: /etc/init.d/apache2 start runs without any output /etc/init.d/apache2 status then reports: * status: stopped Looking up localhost Making HTTP connection to localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] x86_64 apache problem - OK now

2007-12-02 Thread David Relson
After rebooting to 32-bit gentoo to verify the 32-bit apache setup was fine, I rebooted to 64-bit gentoo. All is working now. I just wish I knew exactly what the root cause of apache not running was and why it's fine now. lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status I

Re: [gentoo-user] Silicon Image 3112 Raid Controller on Kernel 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 not working.

2007-12-08 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:57:06 +0100 Norman Rieß wrote: Hi, i am using a Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) in a non-RAID configuration. Simply an an SATA-Controller so to speak. This worked fine ever since. But with the release of kernel 2.6.22

[gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:20:38 -0600 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... I read a link provided earlier about Plaudis, (sp?). It seems that Portage has a lot of hacks in it, according to what I read anyway. Is that true? Also, is it being wrote with python hurting portage as for as the program itself?

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:05:17 -0600 Dale wrote: David Relson wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:20:38 -0600 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... I read a link provided earlier about Plaudis, (sp?). It seems that Portage has a lot of hacks in it, according to what I read anyway. Is that true

[gentoo-user] trouble with vsftpd

2007-12-16 Thread David Relson
I have installed vsftpd but it's not working. When I try to retrieve a file, not much happens. wget -nd ftp://localhost/test.txt; produces: --11:23:39-- ftp://localhost/test.txt = `test.txt' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:21... connected.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with vsftpd

2007-12-16 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:38:44 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Logging in as anonymous ... Login incorrect. Is vsftpd setup for `anonymous' From vsftpd.conf Logging in as anonymous ... # Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with vsftpd

2007-12-16 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:19:14 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anonymous_enable=YES is set. I won't be able to help beyond that, but I'm sure others will. I remember having a hard time with vsftpd and anonymous too. But it suddenly hit me after

[gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-21 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:54:44 -0600 Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote: ...[snip]... I'm definitely willing to switch and will most likely do so during the holiday week. Paludis seems to be a favorite amongst experienced users. Which begs the question; Why not redirect all efforts to building a

Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-22 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:41:22 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:50:54 David Relson wrote: I'm experimenting with paludis. Seems fine, though a bit verbose and cryptic. Running paludis -i world produces: Unhandled exception: * In program paludis -i

Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:45:03 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 20:09:40 David Relson wrote: As I'm a paludis newbie and as it allows a multitude of settings, I used portage2paludis.bash to create /etc/paludis/use.conf. Whatever is missing from use.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup

2007-12-24 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:36:16 -0500 Michael George wrote: I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a minute for X to start now. I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up

Re: [gentoo-user] Paludis newbie questions [was: Excellent Paludis interview]

2007-12-29 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:48:21 +0100 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 23 December 2007 18:56:40 David Relson wrote: I suspect a better worded message would have let me find the mistake Such as? Hi Bo, I'm not really sure, but the message's reference to environment didn't indicate

Re: [gentoo-user] error in emerge for xmlto-0.0.18

2007-12-29 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:49:54 -0600 Alma J. Wetzker wrote: I am trying to update a very old install of gentoo. The portage emerge is stuck on the xmlto package. ...[snip]... I can't find a reference to sourceforge in any of the files in the work directory. Where do I put the docbook.xsl

Re: [gentoo-user] besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge

2008-01-02 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. ECONF_EXTRA='--enable-rootcommit' Always needs to be applied to cvs on updates. Where is such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-11 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:02:08 +0100 Michael Schmarck wrote: Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you joke will become the truth. Currently, Gentoo has not updated its installation CD for a long time! Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:25:55 -0600 Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: ...[snip]... You are missing the point of Gentoo then. We are NOT a binary distro (to repeat ad nauseum). If you want that kind of install, please change distros. I do find these other methods of install to be interesting though. Has

[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS

2009-01-14 Thread David Relson
Yesterday evening, I had a series of kernel BUG events logged. They didn't actually _crash_ my workstation but I rebooted it anyway. Last night at 02:27:09 another BUG halted the machine. Attached file BUGS.txt summarizes the BUGs logged. Attached files messages.*.txt have the full messages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS

2009-01-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:46:47 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 14.01.2009, 07:38 -0500 schrieb ext David Relson: I presume it'd be useful to report these upstream. According to the attached files, your kernel is tainted. Nobody will care. First try without the tainting

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.28 BUGS

2009-01-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:34:43 +0100 Xav' wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:14:01 -0500, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:01:28 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2009/1/14 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com: I noticed the taint message and don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard died?

2009-01-15 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:24:55 -0500 Dan Cowsill wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed information. I have some news, but it requires me to put on my embarrassed face. No need to be embarrassed! I work in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-18 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:45:04 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N

[gentoo-user] localversion [was: When did bzImage move? ]

2009-02-02 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:22:29 -0600 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: cd /usr/src/linux echo $(hostname)- localversion1 ln -s .version localversion2 will give each kernel a name with the hostname and version added. .version is automatically incremented

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

2009-02-17 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:05:08 + Andrei Hanganu wrote: helo group, i've been trying the past 2-3 years to find the most usable and nice ide for c/c++ code writing. I've been through vim/vim + plugins/emacs + different modes/anjuta/kdevelop/codeblocks/eclipse/netbeans ... every single one

[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean vs. revdep-rebuild

2009-04-26 Thread David Relson
As a cleanup test, I've run emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. emerge --depclean removed approx 85 files, which seemed reasonable. revdep-rebuild then rebuilt 7 or 8 packages -- also reasonable. When I run the commands again, emerge --depclean removes the packages that revdep-rebuild just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean vs. revdep-rebuild

2009-04-26 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:17:39 -0500 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: As a cleanup test, I've run emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. emerge --depclean removed approx 85 files, which seemed reasonable

[gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-04 Thread David Relson
G'day, I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when I start it from the start menu. When I start it from a gnome terminal, emacs reports

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when I

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:51:41 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-06 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 06 May 2009 07:29:51 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: ...[snip]... Back to 8x13... I must admit now it's a mystery for me why X does not find 8x13 while it finds 6x13. Try following: 1. Do 'equery belongs /usr/share/fonts/misc' This gives you list of all packages that have some files

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

2009-05-06 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400 John covici wrote: Hi. I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman compatible with 2.6 -- is there any ebuild for this? I doubt it would be possible todowngrade to 2.5 -- at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?

2009-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 11 May 2009 17:20:10 -0700 James Ausmus wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill danthe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-20 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:18:48 -0500 Dale wrote: dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-23 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

2009-05-24 Thread David Relson
Hi Kevin, This morning I'm experimenting with xorg.conf (with kernels 2.6.28-r5 and 2.6.29-r4 and with ati-drivers-8.552-r2) and have seen a variety of problems. One detail I've noted is that files in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers matching *.so seem to be auto-loaded as X starts up. If you

[gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

2008-07-20 Thread David Relson
I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian languages, specifically chinese and korean. From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays Japanese correctly but shows boxes for Chinese and Korean characters. Similarly, I've got a HelloWorld.java program that

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

2008-07-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200 David Sveningsson wrote: Citerar David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian languages, specifically chinese and korean. From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays Japanese

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

2008-07-20 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200 David Sveningsson wrote: Citerar David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian languages, specifically chinese and korean. From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays Japanese

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

2008-07-20 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:34:29 +0200 David Sveningsson wrote: David Relson skrev: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200 David Sveningsson wrote: This sounds like a font issue to me. Can you see the characters correctly if you cat the files? Hi David, Using a Gnome terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

2008-07-21 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:49:53 +0200 David Sveningsson wrote: ...[snip]... Try running emacs like this: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 emacs -nw That works nicely! If that doesn't help I have no idea why it doesn't work. I am able to display Japanese, Chinese and Korean with xterm (with unicode

Re: [gentoo-user] Success (mostly)

2008-07-26 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:09:32 -0500 Dale wrote: ...[snip]... That Tyan does sound interesting. I would LOVE to have a dual CPU rig, especially if they both have dual cores. I still remember when Leo on the Screen Savers built a dual CPU rig. Since I run folding 24/7 here, that would be

[gentoo-user] numeric keypad problem

2008-08-31 Thread David Relson
G'day, Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, found that I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I can use the comparable keys between the alpha keys and the keypad. I'm guessing that it's an xorg.conf issue but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-01 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: David Relson wrote: G'day, Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, found that I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I can use the comparable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: numeric keypad problem

2008-09-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 08:32:49 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: 080902 various people discussed: Yesterday I updated from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25 and, after rebooting, I have problems with my numeric keypad. Its arrow keys, home, end, etc are _not_ working. I have the keypad arrows set to move the curse

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie broke something

2008-09-12 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:02:10 -0600 (MDT) RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Hello all gentoo newbie here i did a raid lvm quick install from the 2008.r1 livecd i must have missed something because i keep getting rc.conf file from the future errors and my /var directory was empty so i just uncompressed

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-2.4.1 complaining about Java Runtime Environment

2008-09-26 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:09 -0400 Denis wrote: Open OpenOffice.org, go to Tools - Options - Java and select an installed JDK. I tried selecting /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.16/jre/bin but it will not take it! Where is JRE installed then? My machine has it at /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.07/jre/bin HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting python-2.3 back

2008-09-28 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:58:40 -0400 Kirk Lowery wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:35 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: During upgrading today, I inadvertently allowed 2.3 to be deleted. I looked in portage, but it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Change install directory of ebuilds?

2008-10-04 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:52 +0200 Andreas Simbuerger wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 22:08 +0200, Justin wrote: Andreas Simbuerger schrieb: Greetings, Is it possible to change the install-directory of ebuilds? Let's say for example: TODIR=/usr/local/lib emerge python I

Re: [gentoo-user] Change install directory of ebuilds?

2008-10-04 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:05:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2008 00:03:47 Andreas Simbuerger wrote: Installs to /usr/local/lib sounds like b0rked ebuilds.  I'd try using equery to find the ebuilds that installed bad files.  Then I'd look for /usr/local in those ebuilds

[gentoo-user] gnome menu question

2008-10-04 Thread David Relson
G'day, It has been my impression that the gnome-panel's main menu is based on info in files in /usr/share/applications. However there are items in my menus (for example, other/kate and other/kwrite) without files and there are files without entries (for example, virtualbox.desktop). I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome menu question

2008-10-05 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:40:56 -0400 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 23:29 -0400, David Relson wrote: [...] Can somebody please explain how the gnome main menu is built, where it resides, and how to force a rebuild? http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ The link

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