Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
h anything it doesn't recognize. I've been doing this for years. I mostly reply "no" to all the prompts, but sometimes the new stuff is interesting. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
made any changes to, so it's fairly easy to keep up with things. Most weeks I spend less than an hour on administration. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/27/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Kevin O'Gorman, > I also cleaned out /usr/portage/packages (10 GB) but now emerge --sync > is complaining about a large number of them, and apparently cannot > update its cache. I just moved them to another pa

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
]["bintree"].move_slot_ent(update_cmd) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6413, in move_slot_ent self.populate() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6570, in populate mycat = mytbz2.getfile("CATEGORY") File "/usr/lib

[gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
line 6413, in move_slot_ent self.populate() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6570, in populate mycat = mytbz2.getfile("CATEGORY") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.py", line 345, in getfile a=open(self.file,"r") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/All/perl-cleaner-1.03.tbz2' portage # Pointers, please... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox, fonts and stylesheets

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've tried fooling with variations in Firefox preferences, and with the details of the stylesheet, but nothings seems to work. Call me baffled. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/6/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 070506 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to burn a CD for the first time in a long while. > It's not going well. I've got cdrtools-2.01.01-alpha10 installed. > The description says it includes cdrecord, bu

[gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
annot find it. Moreover, K3B fails because it can't start cdrecord either. What did I screw up this time? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/29/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off > > XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole > > s

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought I had it configu

[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ake me to KDE, but the menus in KDE also provide no way to reboot. Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets clobbered I'd like to clean this up: I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry for reb

[gentoo-user] Emerge logs no longer being mailed

2007-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]" What should I be looking for? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already available. How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/25/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted': > 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught (sic) >

[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
sign and a message associated with all of my xfs partitions. The message reads "fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library". But I emerged gparted with the "xfs" use flag, and libxfs is also emerged. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Portage elogs no longer getting through

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
domain instead of nospamplease). Shouldn't I still get these messages? -- Kevin O'Gorman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Notices from portage

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to (briefly) get notices from ebuilds when I emerged them. Somewhere along the line that stopped, and I have forgotten where it was configured. Anybody got a quick hint? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
author my diagrams? Example: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman/453/projects/2/06f453-A2-stack.png Which is a bit blurry, even though I've tried to keep the pixels aligned. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
copy of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. And I have emacs 21.4-r4 installed, but instead of /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had > thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. > Care to: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: > On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's > > wonderfully hard t

[gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
are/doc index files\n"; print "\n"; print "li, p { margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; }\n"; print "\n"; print "\n"; print "\n"; print "Index of /usr/share/doc index files\n"; print "\n"; while () { chomp; s:^\./:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': > On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, > and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
dules both apparently successfully. My attempt to /etc/init.d/vmware start fails and suggests both of the above measures. This is pretty serious for me. Any suggestions? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he FQDN by "hostname --fqdn", so the order on the line is important. Neither of these affects the results of "hostname", although I did not reboot to test the theory that this might make a difference. It seems more likely this comes from /etc/conf.d/hostname ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
s a way to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with > worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. > > I was trying to figur

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
cairo and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
com" BTW: it also says to set dns_domain_lo, but I have no name for my internal network, and haven't seen a reason to create one. Nevertheless, even the system calls getdomainname(2) and uname(2) return the string "(none)". What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/16/06, Boris Fersing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/12/16, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm up-to-date on stable ebuilds. > I've tried to view a cute youTube "Code Monkey" video, but get the complaint my >flash Player plugin

[gentoo-user] Firefox, flash player, and youTube

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
loaded the latest player that Adobe offers for linux, but still get that message. about:plugins reports 3 separate versions of the plugin, and I have no idea how to clean that up, since the plugins directory contains only one. Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Coping with KDE upgrades

2006-11-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ve advice about how to improve that process? Would it be better to remove all but the obvious keepers? I'm not looking forward to the pains-taking process of vetting each and every one of the 231, but I don't want to be spending the time to recompile the presumed multitude that I

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

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or xfs, say -- and allow executables and such? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gcc complains about TLS and errno; I baffled

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
n-TLS reference in /tmp/cc6urgct.o /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value But when I try to look up TLS, all I get is a bunch of stuff about a server-to-server email security protocol. What is it talking about here, and where can I find out about it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/30/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that > Dynamic linking on your system is co

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for me what package, let alone version, they belong to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? Should I just delete them anyway? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

2006-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
7 6f 48 1e df 00 ba" uuid.bios = "56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:d5:f3:35" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ide1:0.startConnected = "FALSE" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" checkpoint.vmState = "" tools.remindInstall = "TRUE" -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerge -aDvu world stopped by media-sound/xmms

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by "media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer !!! Depgraph creation failed. treat portage # -- Kevi

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 04:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > gcc -Wall ctype.c -o ctype > I get > ctype.c:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isblank' $ gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall ctype.c -o ctype -- Bo An

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:10, "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails': > Why is it that using some of

[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
if (isgraph(i)) printf(" graph"); if (islower(i)) printf(" lower"); if (isprint(i)) printf(" print"); if (ispunct(i)) punctf(" punct"); if (isspace(i)) printf(" space"); if (isupper(i)) printf(" upper");

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/4/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I sent a mail with a bad address, and it continues to haunt me. I > can't figure out a way to get evolution to just abandon it. Whenever > I quit, it remi

[gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
w do I get evolution to stop nagging me about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strident message from mysql on emerge

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
l about all the hundreds (thousands?) of packages I have installed. I'd like them to be a bit more helpful, and perhaps careful to state what the problem actually is, or might be. Courteous wouldn't be a bad idea either. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
hat was sensible. I only vaguely understand that LDAP has to do with "directory" searches, but I don't know why I should care about that in general, or about it in reference to apache. So what do I need to know about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
there's a Linux product that works reasonably well with CSS style sheets. Anybody know of one. Free is good, cheap is acceptable. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I was under the impression my video card was too old for the binary driver. > It's built into the motherboard but reports as >ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39 > does anybody k

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 15:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > That's good to he

Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the system > comes up okay. > I have a few remaining puzzles and problems. Here's one: > > When

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging xorg-x11

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:52, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > That's good to head. I can't get the ATI module compiled in. I thought I > was doing the right thing following the howto when I put this in > /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?

2006-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the same result as Mick. As I have static IP's and a single domain I see no point in per-interface domains, but if I used them, what in the world could I expect domainname(1) to tell me? It seems to me the most common setups are DHCP or something like mine, and I would hope the documentation was clear for those common cases. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
the fact that a great many of them are KDE things, but KDE seems to be working just fine. What's a guy to do? Can I get away with just waiting for a while? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/16/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 16 September 2006 17:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to follow the HOWTO, but I've got a problem with ATI. > I put 'ati' in VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf, but it was not picked > up in the ac

[gentoo-user] VMware and the order of init scripts

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
adjust the order of scripts so that apache starts after vmware? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Met a brick wall migrating to Modular X

2006-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ll of KDE too (presumably by making them all ~x86)? Something else? Summary: - how do I make an ATI driver - how do I make a speedo driver - how to get KDE working -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] I think my machine is being used for spam

2006-09-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
t I'd like to not be complicit in spam. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
files for things I never even knew I had, let alone how they were configured) -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] VMware player screen resolution

2006-08-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up multiple man pages (how?)

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
l hiding places. However, I can't get whereis or anything else to tell me where it found them. Is there some neat way to find the locations? I'd like to figure out which ones correspond to my actual software and to ditch the others. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/16/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman schrieb: > config_eth1=( "64.166.164.49/29 brd 64.166.164.55" ) > gateway=( "eth1/64.166.164.54" ) What's gateway supposed to do? In my net.example, there's no gateway=(). Is

[gentoo-user] Emergence killed my connectivity

2006-08-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
he host does not know to send reply packets to the gateway. It appears that I need to have a gateway (so my /etc/conf.d/net needs to do that) and it may need to have the "H" flag off. Can anyone else who uses a static IP setup take a look and see what I'm doing differently? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/15/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:51:00 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Removing strict from FEATURES should stop you seeing these AFAIR. > > I doubt it. All it contains right now is 'buildpkg'. Are you sure? What doe

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a > new fresh crop. Am I then to understand that none of these mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/14/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:35:59 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's a QA message from portage to the developer of the ebuild, ignore > > it. > Isn't there some way "they" could flag such messages

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/22/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> WARN: prerm >> Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use >> toolchain-funcs.eclass > Needs to be fixed by the maintainer of the ebuild. If you feel like it, file a bug (che

Re: [gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/9/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:37:05 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: > Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use > toolchain-funcs.eclass It's a QA me

[gentoo-user] Message from emerge re transfig is ineffective

2006-08-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
A message from emerging the latest transfig reads: Please upgrade your package (transfig-3.2.4-r1) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Why would it say that (rather than just doing it)? How would I comply (I truly have no clue)? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

2006-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to upgrade this any more than what I just did by emerging it. Anybody know what it's talking about? Anybody even know what toolchain-funcs it's talking about -- my browse through the portage tree comes up with no obvious candidate. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/17/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:31, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root' > D [16/Jul/2006:19:23:15 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root' Do you

[gentoo-user] Honey, I broke my CUPS

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
es here is that the actual printer is a LaserJet 4m, with builtin postscript (Level 1, not much memory) so I might well be able to dispense with ghostscript if the pages weren't too complex. Another, of course is the PhD in my signature, given the bonehead moves I've made in the last week or so.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent CUPS "upgrade" broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/15/06, Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There must be a good reason it isn't stable yet: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/net-print/cups On 7/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running cups happily on this box for

[gentoo-user] Recent CUPS "upgrade" broke my printer server

2006-07-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
er deny,allow Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM Order deny,allow Order deny,allow -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Message from gtk+ ebuild:

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
INFO: postinst The old gtkrc is available through the new Gentoo gtk theme. WARN: postinst Older versions added /etc/X11/gtk/gtkrc which changed settings for all themes it seems. Please remove it manually as it will not due to /env protection. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [...] > So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about? If > so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do > they g

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried emerging eclipse. No joy. I went ~x86 on the unstable one > that matches the > version I use elsewhere, on the off chance that would work. No joy. &

[gentoo-user] Eclipse not building for me

2006-07-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ie !!! Couldn't determine VM for generation-1 !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

2006-07-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
could understand. So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about? If so, where can I read about it? If it's what I supposed it is, do they get saved somewhere? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 06:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. Good! > On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks like a helpful reply. Too b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
The light dawned... Gotcha! And thanks. On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This looks like a helpful reply. Too bad I'm so clueless. I seem to keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and I never seem to have the time. So I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
; wrote: On Saturday 08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. > > I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. > Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: > /etc/init.d/cupsd stop &

[gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/7/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: /etc/init.d/cupsd stop says it stopped the server,

[gentoo-user] Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-2459root 14336 Fri Jul 7 14:55:25 2006 treat init.d # SO: is it enabled or not? I guess I'll submit a bug, but I'd like to know if it's best to go back to cups-1.1.23-r7, which I had before, and for which I have a binary package. ++ kevin -- Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 03 June 2006 16:11, znx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow': > On 27/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
c -build" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild UD] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.2-r5 [1.6.5-r13] USE="doc -source" 0 kB -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 16:25, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > So: is there something simple I can do to make portage ignore this update > but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade > when

[gentoo-user] X11 monster rebuild forced? Can I defer it?

2006-07-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
e I can do to make portage ignore this update but allow unrelated ones to go through? Then I'll probably do the upgrade when I'm done teaching summer school. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/25/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Killing *all* kalarm* processes required root priv. You've apparently been logged in to KDE as root once, or done other weird stuff as root. You may wish to look through /root/.kde* for things t

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Press F1, read chapters 5 and 7. ??? F1 gets generic KDE stuff, and it does not have chapters that I can see. Searching for "kalarm" doesn't do any good either. WHat am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I start kalarm, it does not show any items. If I add an > item, it shows, but nothing else. Have you tried refreshing alarms (under Actions)? Have tried killing all kalarm* processes an

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/24/06, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I just had to rebuild pretty much all of KDE. It went okay > except that all of my alarms from kalarm are gone. I had hoped > that they would be preserved like most configuration files. > &

[gentoo-user] Recovering kalarm data

2006-06-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It's not anything obvious like a .kalarm file in my home dir. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
more days back then, I would have saved myself this trouble, as some wiser folks made it clear why this was bad. Odd that only the one package was clobbered by this. Oh, well... ++ kevin On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Emerging xinetd: big changes to config file

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
g on just off the top of their head. Is this update actually likely to change the behavior in any ominous way? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would guess you're out of ideas then, except in desperation, I tried > looking for just part > of that: "-W1" and came up with some stuff I hop

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Done. Results attached. Sorry about the HTML. I hadn't noticed it > was turned on. And I generally oppose HTML mail. Hmm, the problem first shows

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