Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Fox
Bjorn, Thanks for the link, although the easiest solution came in on the forum: typing exit at the busybox shell continued the install script. The install script came back and did a USB config and then happily mounted the cloop filesystem from the usb cdrom. I'm working on stage 2 right now. Ma

[gentoo-user] emerge link error due to i586-pc-linux-gnu/i686-pc-linux-gnu mismatch

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Hannah
Hi, I've just recently finished a successful install of gentoo 1.4rc4 from stage 3, right through to kde, ftpd, apache, samba, etc. Something has changed however and everytime I try to emerge a package I get the error shown below. Basically it seems to be looking for the i586... library tree in

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Tracy McKibben wrote: Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this pretty much what others are doing? I wondered about adding --deep, b

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-12 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:20 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm a little stuck. > > I didn't build my kernel with devfs support. > > So I set CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y > rebuild the kernel > copy to /boot/bzImage > > and then what? > > I'm using grub and I've never used it before. IIRC unlike lilo I don't > h

[gentoo-user] devfs

2003-06-12 Thread Tom Allison
I'm a little stuck. I didn't build my kernel with devfs support. So I set CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y rebuild the kernel copy to /boot/bzImage and then what? I'm using grub and I've never used it before. IIRC unlike lilo I don't have to run anything for it to be "seen" the next time I boot the PC. In t

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:26 am, David wrote: > That is that way I understood it. I never did try try ntpd and with ntpdate > in my local.start. That probably would have corrected my problems, but > ntpdate seems to be working fine by itself right now. Interesting > conversation on the subject

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:29 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Content-Description: signed data > > > > > > My understanding is that a combination of the two works well - and

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing strip in gaim

2003-06-12 Thread Spider
begin quote On 12 Jun 2003 11:07:44 -0700 Spundun Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to debug a crash in gaim (which happens everytime I try to > join an irc chat). RESTRICT="nostrip" or better yet, add "inherit debug" in the top of it. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .s

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a minimum backup?

2003-06-12 Thread Jan Drugowitsch
On Thursday 12 June 2003 21:26, Finne Boonen wrote: > backup important config files as well I think the original question was what to backup besides the config files and where these config files are situated. From what I know (I just converted from LFS two months ago) these are just the ones th

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:03:55 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: > >Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Try to inject the new postfix version (or any other mta). That way > > portage thinks it is installed and won't complain about it. > > Or I could go the no-dependency route. Might break some other pac

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:54, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > I just the hard masked evolution 1.4.0 package after upgrading gtk+ and > re-emerging my gtk-theme-engines. Now, although it emerged perfectly I > have to say that after the wait for development on this new version I'm > thorou

RE: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Osburn
>Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Try to inject the new postfix version (or any other mta). That way > portage thinks it is installed and won't complain about it. Or I could go the no-dependency route. I'm mainly wondering what the cause of the problem is, rather than looking to put a bandaid o

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:09:04 -0700 Joel Osburn wrote: > I'm having an odd problem: I run postfix-1.1.11-r5, having not yet > made the time to switch to the 2.0.x series. Whenever I "emerge sync" > I add">net-mail/postfix-1.1.11-r5" to the top of > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, and then do

[gentoo-user] OT: Verdict on Evolution 1.4.0

2003-06-12 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I just the hard masked evolution 1.4.0 package after upgrading gtk+ and re-emerging my gtk-theme-engines. Now, although it emerged perfectly I have to say that after the wait for development on this new version I'm thoroughly disappointed by it. Here is some reasons. (1) The user interfac

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I see why portage wants to downgrade?

2003-06-12 Thread Shawn
I've always had ~x86 in my make.conf. I'm stumped. On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Is 0.62 versions masked - that is they have ~x86 (or your arch) in the > ebuild? Did you install with ~x86 at one time? > > > > While "emerge -up world" says all is fine, "emerge --deep -u

Re: [gentoo-user] user settings

2003-06-12 Thread Gëzim
Hmm, that seems interesting, but what´s more interesting is that I guess people never had my problem!!! To solved it; I changed the home directory of my user [in debian, since I don´t use it much now] to /home/myuser/debian, and I left gentoo to be /home/myuser because it was frustrating having it

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I see why portage wants to downgrade?

2003-06-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is 0.62 versions masked - that is they have ~x86 (or your arch) in the ebuild? Did you install with ~x86 at one time? > While "emerge -up world" says all is fine, "emerge --deep -up world" > says I should downgrade my gstreamer stuff from breakmygentoo.net. > > [ebuildUD] media-libs/gstream

[gentoo-user] Can I see why portage wants to downgrade?

2003-06-12 Thread Shawn
While "emerge -up world" says all is fine, "emerge --deep -up world" says I should downgrade my gstreamer stuff from breakmygentoo.net. [ebuildUD] media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.1-r1 [0.6.2] [ebuildUD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.1 [0.6.2] Any way to find out what is requesting this? -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] virtual/mta versus mod_php

2003-06-12 Thread Joel Osburn
I'm having an odd problem: I run postfix-1.1.11-r5, having not yet made the time to switch to the 2.0.x series. Whenever I "emerge sync" I add ">net-mail/postfix-1.1.11-r5" to the top of /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, and then do the normal "emerge -pu world". But a couple days ago, this p

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, I did have the arts driver selected under KDE 2.2.1. It's been a long time since I installed XMMS on this system. I'm using XMMS on another system but it's not running KDE. > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:34:31 -0400 daniel wrote: > > i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it s

Re: [gentoo-user] user settings

2003-06-12 Thread Pierre-François Gomez
-- "G=EBzim" Hoxha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hi, my previous answer really seems tweaking, now i read it again :) > debian setting and icons, etc). So I am asking if > someone knows a way to tell gentoo =B4=B4Store my settings > for your programs in /home/mysuername/gentoo=B4=B4 and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread wes chow
I had a similar problem with booting off my firewire CD-ROM with Gentoo 1.4rc3. I popped in my 1.2 disc and it worked fine. Just be sure that when you're untarring that initial bootstrap to use the 1.4 tarball. Also, the Dell folk swore to me that bootable USB CD-ROM drives were mythical. W

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Bjorn Sodergren
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754 Do you have another system to do this with?? Or maybe you can get the topic creator to link you to his. > -Original Message- > From: The Doctor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jon Fox > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:03 PM > To: [E

[gentoo-user] halt exits with preempt count 1

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Ruskin
I think (nothing in /var/log) that's the message I get when trying to halt. I have to use the power switch. That only happens with kernel-2.4.21_rc8-gss - I just upgraded from rc6. The kernel .config is the same for both kernels. It's only a minor nuisance, but I wish I knew how to stop it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem?

2003-06-12 Thread fLokNo
hello. i had a similar problem when the cable was broken and sometimes wasn't able to send things to the pc. when moving or bending the cable works or prevents the mouse from working, this could be your problem too. the spot i bent was right next to the case of the mouse where the buttons are. h

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia kernel major problems

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Rasile
On Thu Jun 12, 2003 at 10:39:33PM +0200 or thereabouts, Martin Larsson wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to get nvidia drivers to work cause i wanted to test Americas > army ;) > altough, I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere :S > ive tried most of the versions from portage + the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia kernel major problems

2003-06-12 Thread Juan Ángel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! > Hello > > I'm trying to get nvidia drivers to work cause i wanted to test Americas > army ;) > altough, I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere :S > ive tried most of the versions from portage + the latest from nvidia but > all giv

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Assembler error

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Sven Blumenstein wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:59:34 +0200 Michael Gruetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, when I emerge mjpegtools-1.6.0-r7 I get the following error message. {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:377: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movd' {standar

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Gruetzner
daniel wrote: i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it says that "media-plugins/xmms-arts" is "permamasked and will be removed from portage at some point since unmaintained usptream" what does that mean? and is there something else that will allow me to listen with xmms in kde

[gentoo-user] nvidia kernel major problems

2003-06-12 Thread Martin Larsson
Hello I'm trying to get nvidia drivers to work cause i wanted to test Americas army ;) altough, I must have done something terribly wrong somewhere :S ive tried most of the versions from portage + the latest from nvidia but all give the same error (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA k

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK-2 Problem

2003-06-12 Thread William F Pearson III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Naylor wrote: | Hi | | Since updating my system (emerge -u --deep world) last night (I'm ~x86) I | seem to be having problems with GTK-2 apps. Every one I've tried | displays:- | | "Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER support is pr

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread daniel
On June 12, 2003 03:46 pm, wes chow wrote: > But another issue... why is noatun buggy for you? It works pretty well > for me. It crashed on occasion while I was using the slicker style, but > after changing to dotNET it's been fine. after kde3.1 came out, i decided that i might as well try out n

RE: [gentoo-user] How to make a minimum backup?

2003-06-12 Thread Finne Boonen
backup important config files as well mvg Finne Boonen *** Beware of the spring, it'll jump you when you least expect it -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Fox
> Had exactly the same problem with my "old" Toshiba Portege (only > floppy, PCMCIA NIC, and USB CD). So I booted with the Slackware > bootdisks, brought PCMCIA up (with Slackware's PCMCIA disk), > configured my NIC and viola, everything else like insall doc (wget > stageX tarball, install, con

RE: [gentoo-user] How to make a minimum backup?

2003-06-12 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Rasmus Wiman wrote: > Thank you, but that was not what I was asking for. I know of several > ways to back up an entire file system. The thing is that I don't see > the need to back up things that could just as easily be rebuilt. > Feels like a waste of diskspace to me since I don't need 99,99% > u

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Fox
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:09:33PM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote: > How about bootstrapping from Knoppix? Does knoppix work with the usb CD? Had a knoppix disk (3.1) and it choked on it didn't like usb cdrom. -- Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread Arnold Krille
An alternativ would be to run "artsdsp xmms" This lets xmms think the output is normal oss but you still have the advantage of sound in/with kde :-) Arnold -- Get my public-key from pgp.mit.edu or pgp.uni-mainz.de --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Rasmus Wiman
Jon Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless somebody has a better suggestion on how to get a working > filesystem, I'm going to try a debian install and bootstrap from > there. How about bootstrapping from Knoppix? Does knoppix work with the usb CD? /Rasmus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jon Fox -- > I've got gentoo running since January on my old HP Omnibook, > but I just for a Dell D400 at work (light and small) > and want to kill off WinXP. However, I need to be able to > boot up something on the new machine which has no ide or > scsi cdrom... just a u

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Fox
I've got gentoo running since January on my old HP Omnibook, but I just for a Dell D400 at work (light and small) and want to kill off WinXP. However, I need to be able to boot up something on the new machine which has no ide or scsi cdrom... just a usb cdrom. I can't seem to get my gentoo di

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic after install

2003-06-12 Thread Kenneth Karlsson
I'm not too sure about partitions but maybe the problem lies with how many primary or secondary partitions you have. I think bios limits primary to 4. Why not try reinstalling without the boot partition and just have one root partition. I dont think you can get any kernel messages as it is una

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:06 pm, brett holcomb wrote: > I hesitate to do the updates automatically. I like to > look at what it wants to update and then decide whether to > do it all (emerge -u --deep world/system -p) or whether or > not I will select individual ones. > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread wes chow
If you don't use xmms-arts, then what might happen is that xmms will lock the sound, and so kde won't be able to output anything until you quit xmms. This is sort of annoying if you have something like an ICQ running and you want to be able to hear message notifications while playing music.

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread Mike Roest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 brett holcomb wrote: | If I remember correctly you don't need the arts plugin. I'll check on | that when I get to my system with KDE. You don't need it I'm ussing the OSS plugin since I'm using straight kernel drivers. If you're using alsa drivers ther

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread brett holcomb
If I remember correctly you don't need the arts plugin. I'll check on that when I get to my system with KDE. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:00:53 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:34:31 -0400 daniel wrote: i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it says

Re: [gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:34:31 -0400 daniel wrote: > i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it says that > "media-plugins/xmms-arts" is "permamasked and will be removed from > portage at some point since unmaintained usptream" > > what does that mean? and is there something else th

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo and 2 windows

2003-06-12 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2003 18:50 schrieb Kees Bergwerf: > Op donderdag 12 juni 2003 11:22, schreef Zack Gilburd: > > > How can I configure lilo so that I can choose between 2 windows > > > > I believe this is explained in the installation docs. I know they > > explain how to set up dual booting

[gentoo-user] media-plugins/xmms-arts masked?

2003-06-12 Thread daniel
i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it says that "media-plugins/xmms-arts" is "permamasked and will be removed from portage at some point since unmaintained usptream" what does that mean? and is there something else that will allow me to listen with xmms in kde or am i forced

[gentoo-user] preventing strip in gaim

2003-06-12 Thread Spundun Bhatt
I am trying to debug a crash in gaim (which happens everytime I try to join an irc chat). I am not able to prevent to strip of symbols in the ebuild. I tried DEBUGBUILD="yes" ebuild /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.63-r1.ebuild install DEBUGBUILD="true" ebuild /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.63-

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread brett holcomb
I hesitate to do the updates automatically. I like to look at what it wants to update and then decide whether to do it all (emerge -u --deep world/system -p) or whether or not I will select individual ones. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:46:29 - (UTC) "Tracy McKibben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread daniel
On June 12, 2003 08:46 am, Tracy McKibben wrote: > Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently > am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up > world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this pretty much > what others are doing?

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread Henti Smith
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:46:29 - (UTC) "Tracy McKibben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently > am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up > world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing old packages from /usr/portage/packages

2003-06-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 12 June 2003 07:58, keanu wrote: > On Wednesday 11 June 2003 20:51, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > Does anybody has a script for removing old > > files from /usr/portage/packages ? > > > > I have been accumalating package files (*.tbz2) > > produced by emerge whith the --buildpkg opt

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread brett holcomb
No, the network is running before local.start is executed. Local is last to start up and first to go down. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:43:00 + (UTC) Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Correct. Never said it did. It is in the local.start and only runs at

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread Zack Gilburd
On Thursday 12 June 2003 05:46, Tracy McKibben wrote: > Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently > am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up > world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this pretty much > what others are d

[gentoo-user] Cron & emerge tips?

2003-06-12 Thread Tracy McKibben
Just curious to hear how others are doing scheduled updates. I currently am doing an "emerge -U world" each night on my workstations, "emerge -Up world" on my server with the results emailed to me. Is this pretty much what others are doing? I wondered about adding --deep, but that one kind of sc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use a worldfile copied from other system.

2003-06-12 Thread Terje Kvernes
Sigurd Stordal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to reinstall my gentoo, but I saved my world file, no I would > like to use the old worldfile and install all the packages I had > installed before. But when I copied this over the worldfile in > /var/cache/edb and run emerge -p it complain about

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-desktop] Can't open mixer device

2003-06-12 Thread Simon Mushi
Dear Maba, Thanks again...modprobeing the pcm-oss and mixer-oss fixed the problem.. man..! I owe you so much for all the helps ... it is sucha great feeling to have conquered all these obstacles.. nto alone but with the help of all y'all... gentoo and I are gonna be seeing a whole lot more of each

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Norberto BENSA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date ; echo ${Juri Haberland} Thursday 12 June 2003 12:43 pm > I might be wrong, but I think local.start is executed *before* the > network has started, so ntpdate can't connect to any server. AFTER. It's the last script to be run on boot up. Regards, Norberto pgp0.pg

Re: [gentoo-user] flash & mozilla-firebird

2003-06-12 Thread Steve Juranich
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Meka[ni] wrote: > What to emerge? I would like it to be gplflash (I thing it's the only open > source). When I emerged mozilla-firebird, the ebuild seems to have automatically set up the flash stuff (I have the netscape-flash package installed). But if you already have the

[gentoo-user] ebuild tree seems broken

2003-06-12 Thread Spundun Bhatt
pertage ebuild tree seems to have gotten into some sort of intermediate stage... hopefully doing an emerge sync after a while should fix this. root # emerge -u --deep world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no masked o

Re: [gentoo-user] lilo and 2 windows

2003-06-12 Thread Kees Bergwerf
Op donderdag 12 juni 2003 11:22, schreef Zack Gilburd: > > How can I configure lilo so that I can choose between 2 windows > I believe this is explained in the installation docs. I know they explain > how to set up dual booting between Gentoo and Win, so I would guess it's > just a matter of rep

[gentoo-user] squid and squidguard ..

2003-06-12 Thread Henti Smith
hi all I'm busy playing with squidguard and I'm getting some wierdness. when running squidGuard binary the logs run as pernarmal and load the db etc but when I add the command to squid.conf and run squid I get a load from the squid output on -d 5 but the squidGuard logs show nothing .. and sit

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2003-06-12 Thread Adam Dunstan
the joys of being a dyslexic comand line user. thanx a million :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Juri Haberland
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>ntpdate should only be run on system boot >>time to initially set the correct time. It was never meant to keep the >>time continously up-to-date. > > Correct. Never said it did. It is in the local.start and only runs at startup. I might be wrong, but I think loc

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2003-06-12 Thread Ryan
I got this error message when my CFLAGS were messed up. It looks like you've got a problem in yours. I think you meant "-march" instead of "-match" your: CFLAGS="-match=pentium-mmx -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" should be: CFLAGS="-march=pentium-mmx -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" Hope that hel

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
>ntpdate should only be run on system boot >time to initially set the correct time. It was never meant to keep the >time continously up-to-date. Correct. Never said it did. It is in the local.start and only runs at startup. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
Yes, I would agree on that. I don't think it contradicts any of my previous statements or ideas either. > > That is correct. At bootup time no applications are running that would > suffer from a time lapse, so then ntpdate is safe. Running ntpdate from a > cronjob though, is not. > > Paul -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
That is that way I understood it. I never did try try ntpd and with ntpdate in my local.start. That probably would have corrected my problems, but ntpdate seems to be working fine by itself right now. Interesting conversation on the subject though. Dave > > > > I don't know but the use of ntpd is

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Juri Haberland
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had 3 servers and when looking in the logs, saw a lot of > connection problems. Also, system was showing problem stopping > the ntpd when shutting down or rebooting. Then either the servers you choose didn't allow you to get the time or you configured ntpd wron

Re: [gentoo-user] having trouble mounting an smb share as a normal user

2003-06-12 Thread daniel
On June 12, 2003 11:01 am, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: > > anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this: > > > > //jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0 > What did you put in your default runlevel: netmount, nfsmount? I > don't know the details, but you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Having some issues wirh Procmail

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Black
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Daniel Jaeggi wrote: > What problems were you having exactly? Anyway, I think this is wrong > because instead of: > > > # Deliver Gentoo mail to specific directories > > :0 > > * ^List-Id:.*gentoo-user\.gentoo\.org > > .gentoo-user/ > > > > you need something like: > > :0

[gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5 fails trying to patch with starfire_nic_fix

2003-06-12 Thread Chris K Ellsworth
(i have a full output from the emerge run in a file if needed) Checking 031_starfire_nic_fix (plain text format)... Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Skipping patch. 24 out of 24 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/starfire.c.rej can't be applied. Please modify the pa

[gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2003-06-12 Thread Adam Dunstan
so im trying to do a stage 3 install on an old pentium 233mmx box and i get this errior whenever i try to emerge some thing. ive cheaked if my make.conf has any line break's in it but, no. any one know what im goign wrong? my make.conf is appended to the end of this message. thanx all (did an

RE: [gentoo-user] having trouble mounting an smb share as a normal user

2003-06-12 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
> anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this: > > //jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0 > > but at boot time it won't mount... even though all my nfs > shares work just > fine. > > so as a regular user, i tried this: > > (~) $ mount /mnt/jay/ > INFO: Debug

[gentoo-user] how to use a worldfile copied from other system.

2003-06-12 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had to reinstall my gentoo, but I saved my world file, no I would like to use the old worldfile and install all the packages I had installed before. But when I copied this over the worldfile in /var/cache/edb and run emerge -p it complain about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing old packages from /usr/portage/packages

2003-06-12 Thread keanu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 June 2003 20:51, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Does anybody has a script for removing old > files from /usr/portage/packages ? > > I have been accumalating package files (*.tbz2) > produced by emerge whith the --buildpkg option. > Now

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > > My understanding is that a combination of the two works well - and > that's reflected in the gentoo (and other distros) ntpd startup sc

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Assembler error

2003-06-12 Thread Sven Blumenstein
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:59:34 +0200 Michael Gruetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > when I emerge mjpegtools-1.6.0-r7 I get the following error message. > > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:377: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movd' > {standard input}:4

Re: [gentoo-user] Temperature

2003-06-12 Thread chip
On June 11, 2003, Ernie Schroder sent me the following: > Anybody have lm_sensors working on an Nforce2 based board? Works fine on my Abit NF7-S, I don't remember the chip offhand, but it's a WinBond, and it's clearly visible near the memory slots. -- Chip Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread nmeyers
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:33, David wrote: > > I had 3 servers and when looking in the logs, saw a lot of > > connection problems. Also, system was showing problem stopping > > the ntpd when shuttin

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:33, David wrote: > I had 3 servers and when looking in the logs, saw a lot of > connection problems. Also, system was showing problem stopping > the ntpd when shutting down or rebooting. > If I would check the server it was usually fine from my memory. > Also, I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem?

2003-06-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Bruno Lustosa wrote: > latest official stable gentoo kernel), that when something opens > /dev/psaux, it will hang the keyboard? Odd...I am having a similar problems with two different mice (one was previously used on this machine when it was running another distro). The

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't open mixer device

2003-06-12 Thread John
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, brett holcomb wrote: > Is the user in the audio group? Also, verify you have the alsa oss emulation modules configured (ultimately in modules.conf) and loaded. Consult the well written Gentoo ALSA guide if you don't know what this means. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

[gentoo-user] New ffmpeg, how to do cvs.

2003-06-12 Thread Sigurd Stordal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just browsing through the ffmpeg site, and they say that from now on the cvs version of ffmpeg should be used. Do I have to request a new ebuild for ffmpeg, or are there a way to use the ebuild and have it checkout cvs. - -- Sigurd Stordal Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem?

2003-06-12 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I'm almost sure this is not a gentoo specific question, but I think someone might happen to know something about it, so here it goes. I'm running gentoo (1.4, up to date) at home, with no problems at all. As of 3 days ago, mouse stopped working (both in windows and in

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot

2003-06-12 Thread David
I had 3 servers and when looking in the logs, saw a lot of connection problems. Also, system was showing problem stopping the ntpd when shutting down or rebooting. If I would check the server it was usually fine from my memory. Also, I think it would depend on if your system keeps time well or not.

[gentoo-user] having trouble mounting an smb share as a normal user

2003-06-12 Thread daniel
anyone had this problem before? in my fstab i have this: //jaysdell/mp3 /mnt/jay smbfs user,rw,guest,uid=500 0 0 but at boot time it won't mount... even though all my nfs shares work just fine. so as a regular user, i tried this: (~) $ mount /mnt/jay/ INFO: Debug class all level = 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware problem?

2003-06-12 Thread brett holcomb
I understand that gpm (the console mouse driver) and X don't mix well. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:10:16 -0300 Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. latest official stable gentoo kernel), that when something opens /dev/psaux, it will hang the keyboard? I'm really confused on this, but jus

[gentoo-user] Hardware problem?

2003-06-12 Thread Bruno Lustosa
Hello. I'm almost sure this is not a gentoo specific question, but I think someone might happen to know something about it, so here it goes. I'm running gentoo (1.4, up to date) at home, with no problems at all. As of 3 days ago, mouse stopped working (both in windows and in linux), so I figured i

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Einar S. Idsø
> For removing: > usermod -G newgroup,`groups username|sed "s:\ :,:g"|sed > "s:groupname,:"` username Sorry, should of course not include newgroup: usermod -G `groups username|sed "s:\ :,:g"|sed "s:groupname,:"` username Einar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Einar S. Idsø
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:25:00 +1000 Keppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # usermod -G newgroup,group1,group2,... username > > will add "newgroup" to the list of groups that user belongs to. Make > sure to include all the present groups though. Shortcut for adding a group: usermod -G newgroup,`grou

[gentoo-user] flash & mozilla-firebird

2003-06-12 Thread Meka[ni]
emerge -s says: [ Results for search key : flash ] [ Applications found : 3 ] * media-libs/libflash Latest version available: 0.4.10-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 172 kB Homepage:http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't open mixer device

2003-06-12 Thread brett holcomb
Is the user in the audio group? On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:58:05 + (DST) Simon Mushi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings to all once again, I have managed to recompile my kernel and slowly but surely restore my system to its past glory after re-emerged nvidia-kernel, some vmware mods, and als

[gentoo-user] HP DeskJet 812c configuration

2003-06-12 Thread Larry Wright
I am trying to get my printer working with cups. I had it working at one point in time, then had to restore some stuff from backup, and it apparently lost it's settings. I have followed the printing guide on Gentoo.org, and I have configured my printer like this: foomatic-configure -s cups -p 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:29, Keppy wrote: > No problem. When in doubt: > > # man the_command_you_are_unsure_about Yes, I surely know about man ;). As any linux user I've already get addicted to it :). Sometimes if I only need the short description of command, # command --help will do the th

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Keppy
Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Thanks, Keppy! I knew about groups command, but for some reason I missed that it can be given a username ;). No problem. When in doubt: # man the_command_you_are_unsure_about Regarding you query about having to re-login to initiate new user and group settings. Someone c

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync KMail dir/address/identity/filter rules between desktop and laptop

2003-06-12 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 17:58, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any easy way to keep Kmail (all mail Folders/Filter > rules/Address/Identities etc) in sync between two systems (both running > gentoo with KDE 3.1.2) apart from copying all folders and rc files across > the machines ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Dmitry Suzdalev
On Thursday 12 June 2003 14:25, Keppy wrote: > Dmitry, > > Unless I missed the post, there is a command for displaying the groups a > user belongs to. Its called "groups" funnily enough. > > # groups username Thanks, Keppy! I knew about groups command, but for some reason I missed that it can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding user to group

2003-06-12 Thread Keppy
Dmitry, Unless I missed the post, there is a command for displaying the groups a user belongs to. Its called "groups" funnily enough. # groups username will return the groups that user belongs to. Then to modify a user account - including add another group to that user - use the "usermod" com

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