Re: [gentoo-user] Work!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi All, > > Don't know if it's appropriate to post this on this list, sorry if it's > not. Anyway, this is serious: we are currently looking for a junior IT > with some Gentoo experience and with a special interest in media > encoding and graphics for a job in a video post house in Brussels, > Belgium. Most of our systems run Gentoo, and it's hard to find anyone > through the usual channels, besides, we're looking for an enthousiast > who wants to learn, and not for someone with a stack of certificates and > diploma's. Anyone? Any other suggestions where else I could or should ask? > > grtz > > Karl Oh if only you were in australia... - -- Richo - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net-> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklAUfQACgkQLeTfO4yBSAc9FACgp9GHjUBnMTwc2/fiw5gGJfpg FGoAn0bQxEJEm8xudavYpPtcrEsnLpSX =Fp7r -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I want to reinstall ghostscript. > > I did for checking reasons: > solfire:/root>emerge -pv ghostscript > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] virtual/ghostscript-0 0 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > > > "Ok...let's do the real thing", I thought: > > solfire:/root>emerge ghostscript > Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... > Emerging (1 of 1) virtual/ghostscript-0 to / > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... > [ ok > ] > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... > [ ok > ] > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... > [ ok > ] Unpacking source... Source unpacked. Compiling source in /home/mccramer/data/portagetmp/portage/virtual/ghostscript-0/work ... Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: virtual/ghostscript-0 > Install ghostscript-0 into /home/mccramer/data/portagetmp/portage/virtual/ghostscript-0/image/ category virtual Completed installing ghostscript-0 into /home/mccramer/data/portagetmp/portage/virtual/ghostscript-0/image/ > > * checking 0 files for package collisions Merging virtual/ghostscript-0 to / Safely unmerging already-installed instance... > No package files given... Grabbing a set. Original instance of package unmerged safely. virtual/ghostscript-0 merged. Recording virtual/ghostscript in "world" favorites file... > No packages selected for removal by clean Auto-cleaning packages... > No outdated packages were found on your system. > * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. > solfire:/root> > > > > Nothing really happens...steps were announced but it seems, > they were not executed... > > What did I wrong here ??? > > Kind regards, > Meino Cramer > > > > Wild guess, emerge -pD ghostscript Rich - -- Richo - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net-> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkg/2kACgkQLeTfO4yBSAc2egCgsMeGMGE2UVYB7ufdA0uWtVlD H+EAoLJ+15otzKbLcnP54oda/Ejs5rWM =K1nr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg crashes with signal 11, backtrace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Strake wrote: > No broken symlinks, but while I was looking, I discovered the actual > problem - mktemp was missing! A quick emerge mktemp fixed that, and > everything is now running smoothly. > > Thank you for trying to help. > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sonntag 26 Oktober 2008, Strake wrote: >> >> look for broken symlinks. Sometimes when you upgrade/deinstall drivers, the >> symlinks are broken - and eselect fails miserably with broken symlinks. >> Remove them all, then install the nvidia driver, eselect, check symlinks, try >> again. >> >> >> > Isn't mktemp in coreutils now.. ? - -- Richo - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net-> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkFWXQACgkQLeTfO4yBSAec8wCghm3seFTWiWHHpjPsKqdBal1u hjAAoIELiUHeQ0N+g6XSbc0FqCDsqLbr =CYUY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Momesso Andrea wrote: > I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware > (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) > that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, > groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, > and a mailing list manager). > > The work my wife does as a researcher for the university is growing > fast, her group relays in the ftp server for uploading important > documents, and she also required me to set up a wiki. > > I now think it's time to set up something more "hardened" and to have a > separated box for her work, to reduce the risk that I break things while > trying experimental stuff, masked packeges ecc. > > It comes that they had from their mentor an old iBook G3 to see if it > fits their needs. > > I will recive the machine tonight and start to work on it this weekend, > so yet I don't know the amount of memory it has, but I know for sure > it's expandible to 544Mb, and I will surely do the upgrade if needed. > > Here are my questions: > > - Is gentoo pcc stable enough to work on a server? > > - What kind of checks should I do to verify that the hardware > (expecially the disk) is fine? > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the > ppc? > > - Due to my limited space I'd like to mount some non-vital stuff on nfs > shares. Is it aviceable to mount /usp/portage on nfs? or maybe just > the distfiles? > > - What would you suggest for automatic daily backups? > > - I use gentoo as the only os on all my machines and it is the distro I > fell confortable with, but is it really a good choiche in this case? > Would a compiled distro better fit my needs? > > Thank yo in advance for your answers. I run PPC64 in a production environment at work (full 64 bit UL) as a postgres data server (it's SUPER fast, 24 hours of upgrade on our intel quad takes about 4 on the mac). IMHO ppc is fine, but obviously sandbox and test before going live. Kind Regards Rich Healey - -- Richo - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net-> #hbh #admin ((richohealey)) irc.freenode.org -> #hbh #debian ((PythonNinja)) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkFGj4ACgkQLeTfO4yBSAcbZwCeN/PH50/sLUjmO97hbyNx6yUd P7kAn2kOuDYGQ1uHsAaNw9ETgjjPbNKo =Uqtw -END PGP SIGNATURE-
