Re: [gentoo-user] prevent postgresql from upgrading
On April 5, 2005 05:56 pm, quoth Manuel McLure: Use dev-db/postgresql-7.4.7-r1 in /etc/portage/package.mask or something like dev-db/postgresql-7.5 if you want to allow bug and security fixes. -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest
On April 5, 2005 10:56 pm, quoth Ciaran McCreesh: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:45:21 -0700 Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair | the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple | X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equivalents? Get coding :) If I had the know-how I would. I didn't mean to say that you should be doing a better job than you are, or that you should be doing more of this or that. I'm sorry if it came across that way. It's just that it seemed to me like you were saying that there is something inherently inappropriate about having this kind of tool in Gentoo. I'm sorry if I misunderstood. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: Linux killer app
On April 5, 2005 09:27 pm, quoth Martoni: What do you think is a Linux killer app (if there is such a beast at all)? A unlikely candidate has surfaced here at home where the boys next door live in my study to play Battle for Wesnoth on *my* computer (rather than The Hobbit on my sons Windows box). :) I'm considering getting VMWare for his box, installing Gentoo on it - and having them play the Wesnoth game on that ... Personally I wouldn't live without Kontact - which is more of a KDE killer app (together with the F4 open terminal function in Konq) ever since Evolution drifted away from the integrated approach. Regards, Martin S I agree that Kontact is a pretty major reason to run linux. I would also say that MLDonkey is a much better way to do file sharing than what is available for windows because it is not vulnerable to gui crashes and therefore runs much longer. If you are into typography (a minority interest I know) then the humble fontforge is pretty damn good. Much better than Fontographer which is hugely expensive despite the fact that it hasn't changed for several years. Zynaddsubfx is a wonderful musical instrument, even though there are still many more great softsynths for windows than there are for linux. And I almost forgot jack! A fantastic sound server. Also plays well with AudioUnits in OSX, which opens a realm of possibilities for networked signal processing between *nix boxes. Still short of mature clients, although Linux music software has come a long way recently. There's a recording studio in Minneapolis that makes heavy use of Linux. Flexible networking and lack of per-instance license fees bring their costs down massively and let clients continue to work on their projects in their own time outside of the studio, which can be very useful. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Two users, two soundcards. How ?
If you use udev you will have a directory called /etc/udev/permissions.d where device permissions are determined at each boot. Robert On April 5, 2005 03:10 pm, quoth Christoph Eckert: Thanks for the info, but what are the files I need to chown/chmod ? I am using ALSA, no OSS emulation layer. phew, that's too much for me ;-) . This is concerning ALSA sequencer, and I'd recommend to join the ALSA user mailing list or the linux audio user mailinglist. AFAIK, asoundrc does not contain any section about user priviledges, but maybe I'm wrong. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest
On April 5, 2005 02:47 pm, quoth Robert G. Hays: Problem is, I am about out of time, and do I really need to start a new learning curve? Possibly, but I am now only fighting with X maybe console-format; that last could wait if it had to. But I might check U out if all else fails. Thanks, rgh. A strategy I have found useful, if this helps, has been to fire up a Knoppix CD, let it autodetect and autoconfigure itself, and then save its /etc (and whatever else) to your hard drive. Then, if you are having trouble configuring something (e.g. XF86Config|xorg.conf), you can borrow the Knoppix version. For example, I could never get the tools available on my previous SuSE installation to configure my rather ancient laser printer. However Knoppix had no trouble doing so and I have been using the .ppd that Knoppix created ever since, including in my current Gentoo installation. Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop The Duplicate Post Whining Please
On April 5, 2005 05:12 pm, quoth fire-eyes: I get home and more than half the posts are people complaining about the dupe posts. I know it must have looked a bit depressing at first sight, but if you read some of the later posts you would have found that the thread had quickly gone completely off-topic, including an interesting discussion about user interface design. I think the problem is less about whining and more about knowing when to change the title of a thread. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from John Lowelljohnlowell@ameritech.net on the Digest
On April 5, 2005 02:28 pm, quoth Ciaran McCreesh: On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:22:52 -0400 Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | People don't *want* to learn computers (making the training that much | harder slower), and, truthfully, they shouldn't *Need* to, beyond | the *Very* basics. That might be the case if they're running Ubuntu or Linspire. This is Gentoo. Our target userbase is people who have at least a fair idea of what they're doing and have no objection to learning more. But what's wrong with tools to make things easier if they don't impair the performance of the system? Why not have a nice simple X-configurator that does the job of the SuSE or mandrake equivalents? You could even unmerge it when you finish with it if you want, or you could write a replacement xorg.conf in emacs or vim when you get more time. I built a gentoo system in an unused partition when I was using SuSE, but I delayed switching over for two months because there were one or two things I just couldn't get working. Granted, the reason I wanted to switch was that I did find SuSE quite inflexible. However the lack of user-friendly configuration tools doesn't make Gentoo flexible. It just makes it difficult. Exclusive. No point saying that OSS is democratic if there is actually a part of us that wishes the Great Unwashed (Great Washed?) would stay out of our ivory computer lab. For the most part, Gentoo is very straightforward to set up if you have the patience to follow the howtos step-by-step. However some things can still be damned hard, configuring X being one of them. Why not be more open to solutions to these problems? Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?
On April 3, 2005 09:24 pm, quoth Dion Sole: Robert Persson wrote: It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the r suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important (such as security fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1? In that case, is there a way to avoid these petty upgrades when I emerge -u world? Thanks Robert Not always. The -rX builds represent Gentoo-specific updates, ie something like a new patch, that sorta thing. This can include security fixes, if they are released as a patch rather than as an actual update to the upstream package, which would result in a version bump for the ebuild. As to blocking all *-r bumps, I don't think you can. but if I *-r bumps do sometimes include security patches then blocking them arbitrarily would probably not be such a good idea after all. Thanks Brian, Chris and Nick for your suggestions and for clearing that up for me. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?
On April 3, 2005 12:18 pm, quoth A. Khattri: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: When I do emerge -pvu world portage tells me that it wants to install mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 installed. I had thought that putting dev-php/mod_php-5 in /etc/portage/package.mask would stop portage trying to install php-4.3, but it doesn't. What should I do? You should run emerge -uDtpv world (note the t option) and show us the output. Silly me. I've just realised that I had put dev-php/mod_php-5.1 in /etc/portage/package.unmask in order to install mod-php-5.0. It was this that was unmasking mod_php-4.3. I had used the because I didn't want to keep using experimental versions beyond what was necessary, but I should have just left this to be sorted out using package.keywords. Anyway, changing the line to =dev-php/mod_php-5 did the trick. Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?
On April 1, 2005 10:22 am, quoth Robert Persson: On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. Meanwhile the page loads in the external browser as it would if I had middle-clicked the link. Works just fine here.. Jeff Aha! I have just found that if I go into kcontrol-KDE Components-Component Chooser and set browser to open based on contents the contents of the url the problem goes away. On the other hand this also means that links in emails no longer open because, with this setting, KDE passes the location of a cached file to opera rather than passing a url. So one way or another something won't work. Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How do I stop mod_php-4.3 being installed?
When I do emerge -pvu world portage tells me that it wants to install mod_php-4.3 even though I am running php-5 and already have mod_php-5 installed. I had thought that putting dev-php/mod_php-5 in /etc/portage/package.mask would stop portage trying to install php-4.3, but it doesn't. What should I do? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for the Windows NT Kernel
On April 1, 2005 08:33 am, quoth Ted Ozolins: Dave Nebinger wrote: http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/ Nah! It's got to be an april fool's joke... Has to be. Why else would it use NT and comercial-grade in the same paragraph?G I'm not sure it is a joke. Windows as a whole is awful, but the NT kernel was designed by Dave Cutler (creator of RSX-11M and VMS) and it has earned a lot of respect from people who know about these things. It is perhaps the only genuine innovation MS has ever produced. I'm not saying it's better or worse than Linux or the BSDs. It may indeed by worse, but it is still a respectable attempt at a kernel. When I was running XP I installed Interix. I didn't end up doing much with it, but it was very useful to be able to kill -9 runaway win 32 processes - it meant I had to reboot less often. At the time I wondered whether it might be possible to shut down the win32 subsystem when i didn't need it for multimedia stuff and work the *nix way, which I found much less uncomfortable. It wouldn't surprise me too much to hear that someone has actually succeeded in doing so. And isn't there a project somewhere to run a linux kernel as an NT subsystem in order to get access to those windoze drivers? Surely this GeNToo, if it is for real, would be a more elegant way of going about this. The problems I have found with Windows are 1. the insecurity, instability and bloat of the win32 subsystem 2. the crappiness and unreliability of NTFS 3. the lack of tools to tinker with the bootloader to correct problems arising from the crappiness of NTFS and other causes. Interix does nothing to address #1, but a project like the one described would. I assume it would also come with #3. That would just leave the crappiness of NTFS to deal with. So what if the ReactOS people were to develop a reiser4 driver? Then you could have a dual boot system - Linux and the other one - sharing a /home partition and using a reliable and efficient (IMO) file system running the same applications - kmail etc - just in one of those systems you could launch the win32/wine subsystem (or an improved and less bloated wine-based susbstitute) when you wanted it to run cubase or some fancy Adobe sofware, and then shut it down again when you finish. No dealing with windoze update either. What if you could, say, have windows-native audio apps exchanging audio and midi data using jack, possibly over a network? That's something I wouldn't turn my nose up at. If wine becomes much easier to work with on Linux then this kind of idea won't interest me so much, but for now I am interested because there are so many windows apps I miss, even though I don't miss windows itself one bit. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how do you avoid petty upgrades?
It is my understanding - and please tell me if I'm wrong - that the r suffixes on the ends of ebuild versions represent fixes to the ebuild, rather than to the package itself. If that is so, would that mean that category/thing-x.y.z-r2 won't contain anything important (such as security fixes) that isn't already in version x.y.z-r1? In that case, is there a way to avoid these petty upgrades when I emerge -u world? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org
On April 2, 2005 05:07 am, quoth Ian K: Hey! Yes, its hard to believe, but Im sadly still on XFree. Can someone tell me in simple terms how to convert? KDE 3.4 has the genuine transparency thing, right? Ian X.org uses a configuration file called xorg.conf. It follows the same format as XF86Config. If X.org can't find an xorg.conf it will look for an existing XF86Config and use that. This means that you should be able to emerge xorg-x11 and everything should be fine and dandy and ready to use (except for a few annoying X.org bugs) without any further configuration. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo version of KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts
Solved this by upgrading to KDE 3.4. Robert On March 25, 2005 10:54 pm, quoth Robert Persson: KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts, either in icons or in kfontpreview. All I see is an empty white square for the icon or a window with the name etc. of the font and then a big empty white space. I don't have this problem with opentype or postscript fonts. I do have freetype 1 and 2 installed. I don't know what else to check for. The stuff about the icon preview only applies to the Desktop because konqueror, for some reason, won't display previews of anything I tell it to in Control Center - Desktop - Behavior - File Icons. Not fonts, not html files, not pdf files, not sounds. Only images. Probably unrelated to the truetype problem, but I thought i better mention it in case. Any ideas on my truetype problem? (or the konqueror preview one for that matter) Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness
Thanks once again to you and to Dave Nebinger for the additional help. On April 1, 2005 09:37 am, quoth A. Khattri: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: ssh -v zebedee showed that zebedee was being translated as 127.0.0.1, despite what it says in /etc/hosts. Adding ListenAddress 127.0.0.1 to sshd_config did the trick. Err... 127.0.0.1 means localhost, so if zebedee is on another machine then that's not quite right. You ought to be right about that. something very weird has been going on. I kept fiddling about with the ListenAddresses in sshd_config. I would find that when I corrected one problem another would come up. Then I would comment out a line, restart, uncomment it, restart, and the thing would work. I really have no idea what has been happening, but at least it works now. One thing I haven't worked out is how to Listen to a group of addresses without having to put each one in a separate line. If ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 is illegal, and ListenAddress 192.168.1.0/24 is also illegal, how can I tell my machine to listen to the entire local network? How could I tell it to listen to the whole internet? The other problem that was confusing everything is still a problem though. When I start the machine the /etc/init.d/sshd script doesn't start sshd, /etc/init.d/sshd restart doesn't work and /etc/init.d/sshd status tells me that sshd is running when it isn't . I have to /usr/sbin/sshd manually, after which the script works properly. /etc/init.d/sshd zap /etc/init.d/sshd start rc-update add sshd default At least that makes troubleshooting a little easier, but how do I make sure that sshd starts properly in the first place when I boot up? It is in the boot and default runlevels and it thinks it starts up, but it doesn't - or at least it didn't - perhaps the alterations I've made to sshd_config will mysteriously put this right. robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness
Thanks everybody! Got it now. (I was confused by a number of other errors happening at the same time). ssh -v zebedee showed that zebedee was being translated as 127.0.0.1, despite what it says in /etc/hosts. Adding ListenAddress 127.0.0.1 to sshd_config did the trick. The other problem that was confusing everything is still a problem though. When I start the machine the /etc/init.d/sshd script doesn't start sshd, /etc/init.d/sshd restart doesn't work and /etc/init.d/sshd status tells me that sshd is running when it isn't . I have to /usr/sbin/sshd manually, after which the script works properly. Robert On March 31, 2005 08:58 pm, quoth Zarick Lau: Hi, On 31/Mar/05, Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. In /etc/hosts is the line 192.168.1.2 zebedee. However ssh 192.168.1.2 works, while ssh zebedee gets me a connection refused error. I get the same problem when I try to log in from a remote OSX powerbook. However I did not get this problem when I was running SuSE 9.2. Why can't I use a hostname to log in? What about 'ping zebedee' doesn't ping get the IP address correctly? If no, then, the problem is due to sshd. You may check out nsswitch.conf make sure there is a line like: hosts:files dns Also, just to be care.. I'd ask, where are you trying to use 'ssh' to connect to the ssh server? The same host, or other machine on the network? Last, you may use ssh -v zebedee, you may see more verbsoe message. cheers, Zarick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?
On April 1, 2005 09:43 am, quoth Jeff Smelser: On Thursday 31 March 2005 04:29 pm, Robert Persson wrote: When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. Meanwhile the page loads in the external browser as it would if I had middle-clicked the link. Works just fine here.. Jeff Aha! I have just found that if I go into kcontrol-KDE Components-Component Chooser and set browser to open based on contents the contents of the url the problem goes away. As always, thanks for helping me on this one. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness
I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. In /etc/hosts is the line 192.168.1.2 zebedee. However ssh 192.168.1.2 works, while ssh zebedee gets me a connection refused error. I get the same problem when I try to log in from a remote OSX powerbook. However I did not get this problem when I was running SuSE 9.2. Why can't I use a hostname to log in? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] anyone else having trouble with akgregator in kde 3.4?
Since I installed kde 3.4 akgregator has not been working properly. When I left-click on a link a new tab opens in akgregator, but the page doesn't load there and the page-loading progress bar hangs at 0%. Meanwhile the page loads in the external browser as it would if I had middle-clicked the link. There is a bug report for this in the kde-bugzilla - not from a gentoo user AFAIK - but it doesn't look like a widespread problem. Are any other Gentoo users experiencing this? Anyone have a workaround? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh authentication wierdness
On March 31, 2005 01:45 pm, quoth A. Khattri: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Robert Persson wrote: I have been trying to get ssh to start behaving and, among other problems, I am unable to get ssh/sshd - one of the two - to deal with hostnames properly. For instance I have just been trying to ssh into the machine I am working on. In /etc/hosts is the line 192.168.1.2 zebedee. However ssh 192.168.1.2 works, while ssh zebedee gets me a connection refused error. I get the same problem when I try to log in from a remote OSX powerbook. However I did not get this problem when I was running SuSE 9.2. Why can't I use a hostname to log in? What's in resolv.conf? bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/resolv.conf domain magicroundabout nameserver 209.53.4.130 nameserver 64.114.195.135 nameserver 209.53.4.150 -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kills my computer
The obvious thing that comes to mind is to get some more swap space and see what happens then. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tempswapfile bs=1024 count=1048576 # [sudo] mkswap /tmp/tempswapfile should give you 1G extra swap space without repartitioning. That, plus your existing 0.5G swap, should be enough to tell you whether shortage of memory was the issue. Robert --- Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 emerge killed my computer for the 15th time, I run emerge -uD world -v, and the computer starts to slow down, the HD to work a lot (maybe using swap) untill the computer is totally useless (I can't even go and kill emerge, not even pressing num lock toogles the light of the keyboard)... untill I reboot it. Today I left it running for a while, untill the HD stoped, I believe the memory and swap were filled and that the kernel paniced. This is an Athlon Xp 2400+, with 512 MB of phisical ram and 500 MB of swap. PORTAGE_NICENESS is set to 19 on /etc/make.conf. Any ideas ? - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pupeno.com Reading Science Fiction ? http://sfreaders.com.ar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCR7d/fW48a9PWGkURAgDjAJ4yqgOzAa+txYzsNySNDZDxaxqWVgCgjV0l yCigOiNzNCbkqFFIqT4/UH0= =vjpQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Robert Persson I will shout the names of root vegetables for money. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)
Thanks everybody who helped me on this! Nick's solution (emerge linux26-headers) worked. I had a problem a bit further along the line - can't remember where exactly - of a build borking. Solved it by compiling that bit USE=-python. KDE 3.4 installs alongside 3.3, rather than overwriting it, which means that the only thing that could, if it was broken, make your system temporarily inaccessible after installing 3.4 would be kdm. On March 27, 2005 12:44 pm, quoth Nick Rout: On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 12:37 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: I am getting tied in knots trying to emerge kde 3.4. I get the message sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2), even though emerge -C linux-headers gives me a message saying that linux-headers is not installed. I had this problem last night. emerge linux26-headers solved it. The thing is that I have some version or other of the 2.6.11-mm2 sources installed, so I shouldn't need either of these packages, should I? yes, don't ask me why, I asked once but didn't understand the replies, I just nodded sagely ... -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)
I am getting tied in knots trying to emerge kde 3.4. I get the message sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2), even though emerge -C linux-headers gives me a message saying that linux-headers is not installed. The thing is that I have some version or other of the 2.6.11-mm2 sources installed, so I shouldn't need either of these packages, should I? I imagine that if I tried to install the modular kde ebuilds, as opposed to emerging monolithic kde, I might be able to work round this problem, but I would have to unmerge kde before I started wouldn't I? That would put me at risk of being without a desktop manager for quite a while if something went wrong, wouldn't it? I am also told that akgregator is blocking kdepim. Does that mean that akgregator is now part of kdepim? I would be very grateful for any help on this. I need to upgrade because 3.3 has a serious bug that I need to get away from. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo version of KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts
KDE 3.3 won't preview truetype fonts, either in icons or in kfontpreview. All I see is an empty white square for the icon or a window with the name etc. of the font and then a big empty white space. I don't have this problem with opentype or postscript fonts. I do have freetype 1 and 2 installed. I don't know what else to check for. The stuff about the icon preview only applies to the Desktop because konqueror, for some reason, won't display previews of anything I tell it to in Control Center - Desktop - Behavior - File Icons. Not fonts, not html files, not pdf files, not sounds. Only images. Probably unrelated to the truetype problem, but I thought i better mention it in case. Any ideas on my truetype problem? (or the konqueror preview one for that matter) Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] YahooMess:ireneshusband AIM:shamanicpolice No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] slow dns resolution
I am having a problem with slow DNS resolution on my gentoo system. They tend to take 5-10 seconds or so and afflict all applications, including ping. A previous SuSE installation on the same box didn't have this problem, nor does a Mac currently on the same LAN. The Gentoo box has a fixed IP, while the mac gets its IP and DNS stuff from the local router by DHCP. However the same DNS servers are listed in the same order on both machines. I read somewhere that IPv6 could be the culprit. However I have compiled my kernel without IPv6 support and I have, to the best of my knowledge, disabled it in modules.conf. Does anybody have any other ideas that might work? Many thanks. Robert -- Robert Persson No matter how much ye shake yer peg The last wee drap rins doon yer leg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
