Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?
odt and ods are supported now in google document. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Andrea Momesso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Marc Beaune [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. But takes much more time to load and to work on 64bit machines. Actually now I use google documents... Which is pretty limited for daily use... AFAICR it does not support odf documents, or it does now? -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391 -- Jean-Marc
Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?
Hi, I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. Actually now I use google documents... On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andrea Momesso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008 08:20:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot of time. This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same package, and the same version, due to a new (and unused by me) useflag which is -templates%. Of course the result would be a completely identical build, as long as I'm not using that useflag, so I want to avoid it. At the same time I don't want to see anymore openoffice in the list of upgradable packages in my daily emerge -uDNp world. Can someone help? Let the thing build overnight. Tomorrow morning it will accede to your wishes and start to shut up. emerge --reinstall changed-use also looks worth investigating -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com I cheated :P I manually edited /var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/IUSE adding templates, and now it does not ask me for reinstall anymore. That saved me a lot of time, energy and disk consumption :) -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391 -- Jean-Marc
[gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter
Hi, I'm trying to use usb to serial converter, the data transfer works but it's very very slow. I use FTDI converter with kernel 2.6.25-r7 build in driver. How could I trave where the problem comes from? Thank you, -- Jean-Marc
Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update
Hi, Did emerge told you to update some config files? /JM On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before. It's a german keyboard. Here are expected keys, and the results: ß \ ö [ ä ] ü @ Keys like @ (Alt-Gr q), | (Alt-Gr ) and ~ (Alt-Gr +} do not work at all. Same goes for console switching via Ctrl-Alt-Fn. There is a warning message in the X log, I assume this has to do with it: [...] (**) Option CoreKeyboard (**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard (**) Option Protocol standard (**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xorg (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: xorg (**) Option XkbModel pc105 (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: pc105 (**) Option XkbLayout de (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: de (**) Option XkbVariant nodeadkeys (**) Keyboard0: XkbVariant: nodeadkeys (**) Option CustomKeycodes off (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Keyboard0 (type: KEYBOARD) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse0 (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device NVIDIA Event Handler (type: Other) (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap [...] There are quite some references to this message, but many are unresolved. Someone installed xkbutils, this did not help me, and I do not see why it should. Some people xmodmap a lot, but this would be a workaround, while I am interested in a cleaner solution. The weird thing is that this happens only when using KDM, not if I startx from the text console. Does this ring a bell for someone? Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XKbModel pc105 Option XKbLayout de Option XKbVariant nodeadkeys EndSection Wonko -- Jean-Marc
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter
Ok, The problem is I don't know what kind of information I can give. What I can say is the transfer takes 10 minutes via usb to serial instead of 30 seconds via the standard DB9 connector. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 15 Oct 2008, at 10:35, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: ... I'm trying to use usb to serial converter, the data transfer works but it's very very slow. I use FTDI converter with kernel 2.6.25-r7 build in driver. How could I trave where the problem comes from? Unless you give more information one might assume that your slowness is only that inherent in a serial connection. Stroller. -- Jean-Marc
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with net.eth0
Hi,According to your restart output, net.eth0 sarts at boot runlevel, it should start at default runlevel. Check this with 'rc-update -s'If it really starts during boot runlevel, try the following : rc-update del net.eth0 rc-update add net.eth0 defaultThen restart the system.On 9/16/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:HI, everyone!I had a system lock-up during heavy hdd activity. This caused huge file system problems. I hardly restored the system in order to boot, butfinally I had a successful emerge -e system. Now I have some problemsleft and I will appreciate your help to solve them.I can start my network manually but can not do this through gentoo's native mechanism. Here is the output:The problem: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] * Service net.eth0 stopping * WARNING:you are stopping a boot service. * Service net.eth0 stopped * Service net.eth0 starting * WARNING:net.eth0 has started but is inactiveThe link: ls -la /etc/init.d/net.eth0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 15 Sep7,18 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 - net.loThe confing file: sed '/#/d;/^$/d' /conf/net modules=( iproute2 ) config_eth0=( 10.0.0.11/24 10.0.0.1/24 ) routes_eth0=( default via 10.0.0.10 )Please, give me a hand to get net.eth0 back in normal state.--Best regards,Daniel--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] error installing xorg
Hi,Do you use 'emerge xorg-x11' ?On 9/14/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:TOA wrote:[...HTML...]Do not send HTML messages to this list, or any list.Please configure your Thunderbird to produce plaintext mails.Also, do not provide too much information.Just a bunch of linesbefore the error message are usually enough for those who know thisstuff.Something like this. checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... nochecking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-configchecking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yeschecking for XKBFILE... configure: error: Package requirements (x11 kbproto) were not met:No package 'x11' foundSomeone else knows what is happening here?Benno--Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas.-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] BUG 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 does not compile
Hi, I don't know if it's relevant but as the installation guide says, I do 'make make modules_install'. Otherwise you could try to use genkernel, just to see if kernel sources are corrupted. On 9/13/06, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,gentoo doesn't seem to like me.Trying to install gentoo, I didUSE=-doc symlink emerge gentoo-sources After menuconfigmaketerminates due to a shell syntax error.Are the gentoo kernel patches buggy?Many thanks for hint,Helmut JarauschLehrstuhl fuer Numerische MathematikRWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] changing CHOST
Hi, I had to change CHOST during gcc upgrade. I did bootstrap.sh I did emerge -e system emerge -e world didn't work. I struggled more than one week to make it work, now I'm reinstalling from scratch. My advise: Backup all important data and excpect the fact that you could lost your system. On 9/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- On 9/9/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, I change the chost, and then emerge -e system emerge -e world Hmm, same answer I gave you yesterday: change CHOST in make.conf /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh emerge -e system emerge -e world Me thinks the mail list bug has struck again.Let me know if you don't get this one.;- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listRichard:I got this one - thanks, the problem is that im getting conflictingadvice from multiple sources. I asked again to try to clarify.Ive received answers that range fromYou cant do that no matter whatToYou don't want to do thatToIt wont do any goodToYour answerToBootstrap wont run ToNo need for bootstrap, just change and do the emergesIm a bit confused to be honestTimothy A. HolmesIT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer TeacherMedina Christian Academy A Higher Standard...--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?
I would call this discussion Re-installing the system with gcc-4.1 That's what I'm doing now after more than one week of struggle ! ;-) On 9/8/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy A. Holmes wrote: [Timothy A. Holmes] I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to start a fresh build (it's a standby server and I can afford to have it off line for a day or 2) specifically to avoid having to do the gcc4 upgrade.Ive done one so far and it took me 5 days and nearly cost me my laptop -- and I followed the gentoo guide specifically.There has GOT to be a better way.Sadly I cant take each of my servers offline to do upgrade them this way -- some I will have to risk on the GCC upgrade, but for now im avoiding it like the plague. Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14This coming from a person that has a lot of bad luck.I did the gccupgrade and it seemed to work fine here.I found a script on the forums that seemed to work better than emerge -e world.I had a few packagesthat failed due to my settings but they after getting the USE flags setcorrectly, they worked fine.I have changed my profile to 2006.1 while I was at it.Maybe you have something complicated since you are running servers butit seemed to work here.I was amazed that mine went so well.Dale:-) :-)-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with a world update
Could you send the output of 'emerge -V'?
On 9/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks;I have a server that im getting ready to build as a file server -- theOS is installed (several months ago-- its been idleing) and im doing an
emerge -NDuav world to get it all up to date.Im getting the following error, and I have no clue what to do about it,can someone please point me in the right direction?** adjusting tabset paths
sed -f run_tic.sed/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/misc/terminfo.srcterminfo.tmpmake[1]: Leaving directory`/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/narrowc/misc'cd c++ make DESTDIR= all
make[1]: Entering directory`/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/narrowc/c++'/usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-
5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/../include -I.-I../include-D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG {-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe-fomit-frame-pointer}-fPIC -c/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/cursesf.cc -o../obj_s/cursesf.o
/usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/../include -I.-I../include-D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG {-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer}-fPIC -c/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/cursesm.cc -o../obj_s/cursesm.o/usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/../include -I.-I../include-D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG {-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe-fomit-frame-pointer}-fPIC -c/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-
5.5/c++/cursesw.cc -o../obj_s/cursesw.og++: {-O2: No such file or directoryg++: {-O2: No such file or directory/usr/bin/g++ -I../c++ -I../include-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/c++/../include -I.-I../include-D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG {-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe-fomit-frame-pointer}-fPIC -c/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-
5.5/c++/cursespad.cc -o../obj_s/cursespad.og++: {-O2: No such file or directoryg++: {-O2: No such file or directorymake[1]: *** [../obj_s/cursesf.o] Error 1make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make[1]: *** [../obj_s/cursespad.o] Error 1make[1]: *** [../obj_s/cursesw.o] Error 1make: *** [all] Error 2!!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 failed.Call stack:ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compilencurses-5.5-r2.ebuild, line 49: Called do_compilencurses-5.5-r2.ebuild, line 91: Called die!!! make failed!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.Timothy A. HolmesIT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer TeacherMedina Christian AcademyA Higher Standard...Jeremiah 33:3Jeremiah 29:11Esther 4:14
--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with a world update
Did you upgrade gcc ?On 9/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you send the output of 'emerge -V'?/JM[Timothy A. Holmes]srvweb-01 ~ # emerge -VPortage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,2.6.16-gentoo-r6Kernel5-9-2006a i686) srvweb-01 ~ #Timothy A. Holmes--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Bookeeping recommendations
Hi,According to my updated portage tree:app-office/gnucash Latest version available: 1.8.11 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 9,280 kB Homepage: http://www.gnucash.org/ Description: A personal finance manager License: GPL-2On 9/6/06, Nico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who have gnucash installed, is it the 2.0 version (~86) ? Does it work fine ?I have to choose in urgence a software like this and I'm testing grisbi for now, which is a bit too basic for the interface. I need graphs and beatiful colours :) Sql-ledger is a nice one, but It's more adapted for small societies or associations, maybe that's the one you need... and if you like CSS, you can tweak your web interface. -- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} New CPU for my motherboard
Hi, Look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags Then 'emerge -e system', then 'emerge -e world'. Good luck! On 9/7/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Celeron 700 Dell desktop and I'd like to upgrade the CPU ifI can.What type of CPU should I look for?How can I tell what will be compatible?Also, how can I tell what kind of memory would be compatible?- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again - problem on installing Gentoo (Booting started)
Hi, Do you follow the installation guide from gentoo.org? I mean, do you use a standard scheme? On 9/5/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Neil, /usr/src contains the source to the kernel (as you'd expect form the name). The actual kernels live in /boot, this is the version that must match.Gentoo started booting after changing following line;kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7root=/dev/hda2tokernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7root=/dev/hda2 But still having following problems;1)Engine: Unable to open the engine block file /var/lock/evms-engine :Read only filesystem.The engine is not protected against otherinstances of the Engine being opened at the same time.Error returned from evms_commit_changes ( ) : No such device [!!]2)Loading module 3c59x Failed to load 3c59x[!!]3)All/dev/vg/usr/dev/vg/home/dev/vg/opt/dev/vg/var/dev/vg/tmp have same problem as listed follow;e2fsck: No such file or directory which trying to open /dev/vg/usr.The super block could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2filesystem.If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else).There thesuperblock is corrupt, and your might trying e2fsck with an alternativesuperblock :e2fsck -b 8193# e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/vg/usrfsck.ext3 : No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/vg/usrPlease advise how to fix them.TIAB.R.SL--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?
Hi, Did you try to find kdestart? On 9/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 23:12 +0100, Mick wrote: $ kdestart -bash: kdestart: command not found did you try `which kdestart` or `slocate kdestart`?maybe it's not inyour path anymore, or the package was deleted.I personally don't havekde installed so I don't know which package kdestart comes from, but if someone could provide the output fromequery belongs kdestartthen you can make sure you have that package installed.Hope this is one step towards a working system :)--Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understandswhat will sell. -- Confucius--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- /JM
Re: [gentoo-user] Again - problem on installing Gentoo
Hi, Are you sure about 'kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17/gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2' Shouldn't it be 'kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2' instead ? On 9/4/06, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,Have another round installing Gentoo, runninginstall-amd64_minimal-2006.1.Still encountered the same problem apart from that of Internet connection.Installation went throughwithout difficulty.Grub started but ending at Error 15 : File notfound.I installed grub manually with;# cat EOF | grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) EOF.. (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2/boot/grub/menu.lst...succeeded.Kernel image has to be copied manually;# cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5 # ls -al /boot/.keepboot - .grublinux-2.6.17-gentoo-r5loar+found* end *What is .keep there ?/boot/grub/grub.conf...kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel- 2.6.17/gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2* end *I still could not resolve re-entering chroot environment unable to findenv-update, emerge, /src/, /modules/.I wonder whether I wasfollowing the right book.It seems to me installing Gentoo even more difficult than installing LFS and BLFS.Advice would be appreciated.TIAB.R.SL--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST recursive problem
Hi, Just a stupid question : What is bootstrap.sh used for ? Thanks /JM On 9/5/06, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 05:18 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi,due to my installation fault half a year ago, I have to change CHOST from i386* to i686* to be able to install gcc-4.1 Co. since abetter CPU as i386* is needed. I am running anAMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+.As discussed previously it was suggested to change CHOST and do a emerge -e system; emerge -e world then following the gcc-upgrade-and gentoo-upgrade-guide.I tried that (after doing a backup of my whole system), but failed assoon gcc was needed, cause the corrected CHOST implies, that there is gcc already there, which supports (at least by its name...) the newCPU. But my old ( == current, not upgraded) gcc is named after thewrong CHOST nameing (i386-pc-linux-gnu). Naturally none of the tools was able to find the new gcc -- orusing the old one instead.The situation now is:To upgrade to the new gcc-4.1 I Co. have to change CHOST in beforehand.After changing CHOST no compiler will be found and Iwill no longer be able to upgrade to gcc-4.1 Co.Recursive doom ?I have no guarantee that this will work, but try the following: 0. Make sure backup is up to date1. Change CHOST in /etc/make.conf2. cd /usr/portage/scripts3. ./bootstrap.sh4. emerge -e system5. emerge -e worldRegards,Paul-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
