Re: [gentoo-user] Root shell doesn't source bashrc
On 16:11 Fri 25 Mar , Harry Putnam wrote: On a root login and although root's shell is bash, the .bashrc file I created is not sourced. Is this a local config problem or a default system setting somewhere. Far as I know, when using bash it is supposed to look for .bash_profile/profile (in that order) and then .bashrc when invoked. Bash sources /etc/profile, then either ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile, in that order. In order for ~/.bashrc to be sourced, you need to do it from one of these files with a line like this: [ -f ~/.bashrc ] . ~/.bashrc That's for a login shell anyway. See the bash man page or info pages for more. HTH. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etcat equery
On 08:05 Thu 24 Mar , Russ Brown wrote: From what I can gather etcat is being phased out in favour of equery. All fine and dandy, except that etcat has functionality that equery does not that I find useful: [snip description of features] Why don't you open a bug requesting this functionality? These are both really useful features. The really annoying thing is that etcat uses doesn't actually work at the moment (traceback below), which means I have to install the package to find out what use flags I actually want, and then install the package again! Well, that or go looking through the gentoo files myself, but that's what these utillities are supposed to help you avoid. Yes, I know I can do an emerge -pv package to see a list of the use flags, but that doesn't explain what they all mean, which etcat did. I know this isn't exactly what you want, but in the meantime use grep use-flag /usr/portage/profile/use.*. At least it's a better solution than installing a package twice. HTH. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive
On 21:32 Mon 28 Feb , Bo Grimes wrote: First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards. I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much as possible in the process. However, I don't want to have to run to the kids' XP computer every time I want to use the forums, post to the list or go to irc. Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32 partition for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6 gig hda1 with Windows just for a few educational games my kids still use that wouldn't run on XP, but I want to use hdb1 for Gentoo. I have never put two versions of Linux on one computer. I want to keep hdb3 for my use while installing Gentoo on hdb1. Is this do-able? Are there any pitfalls to watch out for? Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive
On 10:22 Tue 01 Mar , Bo Grimes wrote: Bill Davidson wrote: Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro. Regarding the above, I have been reading the handbook and saw that possibility. My primary concern right now isn't to just get Gentoo running; it's to get a real Linux education. Would installing from my current distro accomplish that just as well, y'all think? I'd say so. One of the main advantages however is that you have a running system while installing gentoo. Installation from a live cd means that unless you have another machine, you have to wait until gentoo is installed before you can do anything. My $0.02 Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken
On 20:24 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: [snip] A completely different list from the emerge above... Lots of updates... damned ~ # emerge -pvuD dvdrip These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pkg sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r7) [ebuild UD] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20040214 [20050223] (-uclibc) 30 kB [ebuild UD] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.6 [8.4.6-r1] +threads* 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-apps/sed-4.0.9 [4.1.4] -bootstrap -build -debug +nls [more snippage] That *is* a lot of updates. Maybe you should try updating world first and see how that goes. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken
On 15:23 Mon 28 Feb , Hamie wrote: Well... Something is definately screwy on my system... An 'emerge -pv dvdrip' lists a whole lot of updates wanrs me to update portage first at risk of killing something if I don't, but when I do an 'emerge -u portage' it says there's nothing to udpate... (Appended below). Is there an easy way to fix whatever is wrong on my system? (Since it certainly looks like a locl problem). Calculating dependencies ...done! You should really show what command you're using to go with this ouput. However, I can tell that this ouput is the result of the -e flag because of all of those package that are part of the system that portage thinks are new installs. It's because of the -e flag that emerge thinks you need to upgrade portage. Bill [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pkg sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r7) [ebuild N] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20040214 [ebuild N] dev-lang/tcl-8.4.6 [ebuild N] sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 [ebuild N] sys-devel/gettext-0.14.1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/sed-4.0.9 [ebuild N] sys-apps/texinfo-4.7-r1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2 [ebuild N] sys-apps/cronbase-0.3.1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/man-1.5p [ebuild N] sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 [ebuild N] sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 [ebuild N] dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r4 [ebuild N] sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 [ebuild N] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-glibc-1.1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/m4-1.4.1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/bison-1.875d [ebuild N] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.2 [ebuild N] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 [ebuild N] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.2-r5 [ebuild N] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r4 [ebuild N] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r9 [ebuild N] sys-libs/readline-4.3-r5 [ebuild N] sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 [ebuild N] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 [ebuild N] sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7 [ebuild N] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e [ebuild N] dev-libs/expat-1.95.8 [ebuild N] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.5 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.9.4 [ebuild N] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 [ebuild N] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r10 [ebuild N] sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6 [ebuild N] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 [ebuild N] sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 [ebuild N] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.35-r1 [ebuild N] dev-libs/libpcre-5.0 [ebuild N] sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r6 [ebuild N] sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2 [ebuild N] app-crypt/hashalot-0.3 [ebuild N] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12i-r1 [ebuild N] media-libs/libpng-1.2.8 [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-2.0_pre4-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10-r4 [ebuild N] media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1 [ebuild N] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 [ebuild N] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3 [ebuild N] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 [ebuild N] dev-lang/tk-8.4.6-r1 [ebuild N] dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r15 *** Please update portage to the above version before proceeding. Failure to do so may result in failed or improper merges. A simple 'emerge -u portage' is sufficient. [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.10-r1 [ebuild N] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3-r1 [ebuild N] sys-apps/file-4.12 [ebuild N] sys-apps/which-2.16 [ebuild N] app-arch/cpio-2.6-r1 [ebuild N] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r2 [ebuild N] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1 [ebuild N] x11-terms/xterm-196 [ebuild N] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 [ebuild N] sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r7 [ebuild N] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041102 [ebuild N] sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1 [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1 [ebuild N] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 [ebuild N] sys-apps/procps-3.2.4-r2 [ebuild N] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r4 [ebuild N] media-libs/libmad-0.15.1b [ebuild N] sys-devel/make-3.80-r1 [ebuild N] sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r14 [ebuild N] media-libs/tiff-3.7.1-r1 [ebuild N] media-libs/lcms-1.13 [ebuild N] media-libs/libmng-1.0.5 [ebuild N] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8 [ebuild N] dev-db/mysql-4.0.22-r2 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.37 [ebuild N] dev-perl/Storable-2.13 [ebuild N] dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2016-r1 [ebuild N] dev-perl/DBI-1.38-r1 [ebuild N] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.1027 [ebuild N] media-libs/giflib-4.1.3 [ebuild N] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r1 [ebuild N
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X.org
On 23:50 Mon 28 Feb , pat wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup my Xorg, but all time I have met this error: Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Are you running a hardened system by any chance? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43177 Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependencies are broken
On 21:53 Sun 27 Feb , Hamie wrote: OK. Frustrated debian user here... Maybe I should go back... Anyway... What am I doing wrong? I THOUGHT that one of the things that portage would do for me is to make sure dependencies are taken care of... Yet this seems to be worse than the rpm hell I used to experience with redhat... emerge seems to get some of the pre-req's, but not all of them. Currently I'm trying to get dvdrip on there... But it's complaining that gtk isn't available.. Try to emerge gtk+ and it complains that it needs an Xft Pango backend... ARRGGHH!!! What commands are you using and what is the output? Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to su anymore
On 18:58 Sun 27 Feb , A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Christoph Eckert wrote: Somewhere you have to enable which users may do a su. You dont say. But please don't ask me where I've set it ages ago ;-) . So why bother posting? Was that really necessary? I don't see how flaming someone for participating is going to help anything. The next time you want to send a mean spirited reply, I wish you would send it to yourself. This list doesn't need a bully. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?
On 15:15 Fri 25 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. the usual; but only if I'm root What is the usual? I wanted you to post the output of the command. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?
On 19:28 Fri 25 Feb , Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:15:35PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. the usual; but only if I'm root And what is the usual? And if I interpret what the original poster meant correctly, you should probably use ls -ld /home/blissfix/fat so it doesn't attempt to read the contents of the directory and actually give you the permission and ownership of the mount-point. Right. Sorry. That's what I meant. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?
On 12:59 Thu 24 Feb , maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o But as user I have no access, only as root. cat /proc/mounts reveals: /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat rw,nodiratime,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0033,dmask=0033 0 0 not sure what this means but even as root chown gives: chown: Changing ownership of '/home/blissfix/fat/*': operation not permitted. FAT filesystems don't know about ownership or permission. What you want to do is chown /home/blissfix/fat, assuming user blissfix doesn't own it. What does ls -l /home/blissfix/fat tell you. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken
On 19:03 Wed 23 Feb , Holly Bostick wrote: Andrea Barisani wrote: and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA. Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something for the docs page about basic MUA configuration for the most common MUAs in use on Gentoo (mutt, pine, KMail, Thunderbird/MozMail)? There are already docs for mutt. It's in the gentoo desktop docs. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Enable NUMLOCK on Boot
On 19:08 Sat 19 Feb , Captain FantastiK wrote: HI I wonder what's the way to enable NUMLOCK Keyboard on X startup Any Idea Please This is covered in the FAQ: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#numlock Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is broken
On 13:25 Mon 07 Feb , Nelis Lamprecht wrote: mplayer is also broken on my machine after update but my error is different: gmplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I got this also. Re-merging mplayer fixed it. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6
On 21:22 Mon 24 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I filed a bug because I did what they said. Removed the base, installed 4.2. Next day and emerge -uD world -p wants to downgrade a bunch of stuff to 4.06! I guess I could do an emerge -C on all stuff it wants to downgrade but I'd like to know what broke. Ahh. I looked at the bug. I guess some stuff from xfce-extra requires xfce4-base. I don't have any of those installed, i guess. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slowdown copy operation ? how ?
On 17:26 Mon 24 Jan , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Is there a way to slow down specific I/O operation, f.e. a copy of file from one disk to another or from one partition to another. I dont bother if it takes a little bit longer, but dont want it to take alot of i/o bantdwith of other processes running currently in the system I think you want nice and renice. They can give different priority levels to certain processes. For example if your file copy and another process wanted to do something at the same time, the other process would be given the chance first. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6
On 16:39 Sun 23 Jan , Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:16:19 + (UTC), heide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, unable to solve a problem with emerging xfce4, please forgive me for consulting this kind list. Last week an emerge -uvDa --newuse world upgraded xfce4 from xfce-4.0.6 to 4.2 and it worked fine. Now, another emerge -uvDa --newuse world gives me: [blocks B ] xfce-base/xfce4-base (from pkg xfce-base/xfce4-4.2.0) snip After this removal the emerge -uvDa --newuse world wanted to install xfce4-base-4.0.6 again and the block was the same as the original one above. Should I file a bug or is this behavior just because of me trying to do some silly things? My suggestion is: this is a bug. I encountered the same problem. I was too lazy to report, so I just did emerge -C on everything in xfce-base and xfce-extra. Then I restarted the emerge. The developers have screwed up something, so I'm sure they would appreciate a hint. hmmm. I just upgraded today. I did a emerge -C xfce4-base beforehand and everythin went smoothly from there. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world
On 10:04 Sat 22 Jan , Antoine wrote: Hi, There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will attempt to pass? If not, what should I do? See man portage for the file /etc/portage/package.mask. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Archives?
New gentoo user here. This list is archived isn't it? I can't seem to find them. Could someone post a link? TIA Bill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
