Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync error after power failure

2003-12-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Instead of installing over the top of your current tree, move it out of the way first check that portage related files in /etc are ok (make.conf, esp make.profile symlink, ...) Use root, and not the portage user if you are doing that once your at this level, it gets down to checking basics like

Re: [gentoo-user] How to force reinstallation

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:51:43 -0600, "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"opengl-update xfree" does switch back to mesa (the one merged into xfree). But then why doesn't it work again? >When you unmerged the ati-drivers, did you switch the driver in XFree86 from >"fglrx

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:01:24 +, Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've installed grub and 3 partitions boot, swap and root in my SCSI hard >drive. but when it boots grub shows the command line instead of a menu. >when i write "configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf" it shows me the menu. >ho

[gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2003-12-18 Thread Colin Falkinburg
I still fairly new to Gentoo and setup a Genkernel installation of Vanilla-sources about a month ago. Everything is working great. So now I'm building a dual boot between Vanilla and the Gentoo-r9 sources so I can play with building the kernel from scratch/stage1. First let me state that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-18 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 18 December 2003 04:01, Oliver Lange wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently > using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ? Devs have tried some modest estimates by rsync mirror usage statistics. You should be able to find it in a ml archive or

Re: [gentoo-user] Sun Java SDK problem

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > I'm having problem with Sun Java SDK 1.4.2. The downloading process > works fine except when I try to execute it after say yes to the license. > It's abort complaining check sum error (file size different). [...] Remove the downloaded file from y

Re: [gentoo-user] quote from distrowatch weekly

2003-12-18 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeff Smelser wrote: > Server WE are refering to, is company. Ibm, people like that.. Not people > like use who run a web server for whatever else.. Fact is, redhat wins there > because of support. not because they are the best.. Kinda like microsoft.. > > so, lets stat aga

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread David H. Askew
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+ > year old dad and delivered it the day before Thanksgiving. Believe it or > not, he's now got 16 days uptime and tells me he hasn't had any need at all > to turn on his

Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?

2003-12-18 Thread Alan
The reason for this happen is that the ebuild that is in the system (0.74) is no longer in portage (check /usr/portage/net-im/gaim to confirm this), so emerge doesn't see it as a valid version number for the -U option. Go in and emerge 0.74-rN (or whatever the current version is) and then you -U w

[gentoo-user] 700000 posts reached on gentoo forms

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Young
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Re: [gentoo-user] zeroing out files and unused diskspace

2003-12-18 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Johan Van den Neste wrote: Are there any tools in portage that do this? I had a quick look, but I can't really find one. I mainly want this for use in a vmware gentoo install, to minimize the size of a compressed image. I do not know about such tools, but know the trick how to do it: just write

[gentoo-user] Re: Just installed, booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Jonathan C.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, W. Blaine Dowler wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed Gentoo Linux for the first time yesterday, working from a > stage 1 installation. > Everything seems fine, until it's time to reboot. (Well, the "slang" package > isn't where the > system expects it to be, but Goog

[gentoo-user] Re: aic7xxx endless loop

2003-12-18 Thread Jonathan C.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Helder Rossa wrote: > hi, > > > I'm trying to install Gentoo but after boot when probing (or something) > for the scsi device enters in a endless loop :-S. > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > What kind of device do you have on your SCSI card ? Are they n

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel boot errors

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:47, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Thomas Smith wrote: > > Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed > > I get the second of your errors as well... no idea why though. That error is innocuous. The kernel is trying to copy the contents of the initial ram disk to /initrd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Soundcard not detected

2003-12-18 Thread Robert G . Waycott
Whenever you compile a new kernel, you must then 'emerge alsa-driver' in order for ALSA to work with the new kernel. Don't forget that you also have to tell it what card you are using, and you'll want to check your configs. Once you have re-emerged alsa-driver and checked your configs, 'modules

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Robert G . Waycott
I am not at my box right now, so cannot check this ... It's just a random thought here, so forgive my musings if I'm way off here--I'll check it out when I get home. Anyway, that last comment has put me to thinking ... since the 'defunct' process has been seen as a child of Mozilla, and a second

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 7:22 am, David H. Askew wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > >I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+ > > year old dad and delivered it the day before Thanksgiving

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread David H. Askew
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 03:00, Mark Fisher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 7:22 am, David H. Askew wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:34, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > >I mentioned some time ago that I had built a Gentoo machine for my 70+

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources?

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Bartels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi list, can anyone please tell me why alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources? emerge -p alsa-driver These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-kernel/pfeifer-sources-2.4.21.1_pre4 [eb

Re: [gentoo-user] aic7xxx endless loop

2003-12-18 Thread David Leaver
> I'm trying to install Gentoo but after boot when probing (or something) > for the scsi device enters in a endless loop :-S. > > Had the same issue with my adaptec 2940U. Hung at boot...something like scanning for AIC7xxx_old... Anyway - there's help on the forums, but here's how I got past it.

[gentoo-user] Sound and Light with Asus A7N8X-Deluxe

2003-12-18 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I have the subject motherboard with an amd xp2800+ cpu and a Sapphire radeon 9700pro ultimate graphics card. I am using the 2.4.23-ck1 kernel. I have followed all the guides and tried every which way, including source dowloads from alsa, but can't get the via82xx sound module to eve

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread raptor
i'm having similar when running Galeon it is a child process.. stoping and strting galeon clean it up, but later it shows again :") |Gentoo boxes is a process listed in 'top' as | |netstat | |I presume I can just kill it? (What is a 'defunct' process anyway?) | |Any idea what might cause th

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources?

2003-12-18 Thread raptor
go to virtuals file and remove pfiefer-kelnel from the kernel line... i had similar problem with ck-sources and alsa... i mean this file : /var/cache/edb/virtuals |hi list, | |can anyone please tell me why alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources? | |emerge -p alsa-driver | |These are the packages t

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Collins
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 23:09, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:01:24 +, Helder Rossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've installed grub and 3 partitions boot, swap and root in my SCSI hard > >drive. but when it boots grub shows the command line instead of a menu. > >when

Re: [gentoo-user] zeroing out files and unused diskspace

2003-12-18 Thread Johan Van den Neste
> >Are there any tools in portage that do this? I had a quick look, but I > >can't really find one. I mainly want this for use in a vmware gentoo > >install, to minimize the size of a compressed image. > > > I do not know about such tools, but know the trick how to do it: > just write a file full o

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Helder Rossa
hi, I've re-installed the /boot partition mke2fs + kernel + grub and now it works!! I've got 2 hard drives one scsi and one ata100 and i found out one curious thing. when I'm installing grub hd0 is my ata100 drive and when boots hd0 is the scsi drive :-S On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:10, Collins wro

RE: [gentoo-user] How to force reinstallation

2003-12-18 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
You shouldn't have to build and install Mesa. The program "opengl-update" just changes some links from "/usr/lib" to another directory. The files for your "mesa" build are still there. Just not linked to "libGL" in "/usr/lib". FYI, the "mesa" files are built when you build xfree. I'd look up the d

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Spider
begin quote > > Any idea what might cause this to get started, or how to trace down > > what did start it originally. > i noticed these weird process(es) myself the other day. I generally > have 2 on my system it seems, one as a child process for mozilla, and > the other for evolution. Not su

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel boot errors

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 21:47, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Thomas Smith wrote: Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed I get the second of your errors as well... no idea why though. That error is innocuous. The kernel is trying to copy the contents of the

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources?

2003-12-18 Thread Simon Mushi
Hey Christian, Yes I noticed the same thing...but in my case it was mm-sources that alsa-driver had as a dependancy...this was after I had emerged mm-sources2.6 and tested it out...but went back to using gensources-2.4. I rsynced multiple times and in the end I just didn;t have the patience to fi

Re: [gentoo-user] How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-18 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:01:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Oliver Lange wrote: > Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently > using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ? > > Good question, huh ? About the only sort of global metrics we can easily poll are DNS stats. The gentoo.org name

Re: [gentoo-user] local rsync server

2003-12-18 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:00:49PM +0100 or thereabouts, Oliver Lange wrote: > The gentoo rsync mirror guide explains how to setup a public > rsync mirror. What about an easier guide for the home user who > wants to setup a simple LAN rsync mirror ? Should be easy to > understand and also cover an

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:10:03 -0800, Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not quite, grub will work with either a grub.conf or the older menu.lst file >for configuration. Please post the contents of your configuration, if the >following suggestion doesn't help This is how it is mentioned in the

[gentoo-user] emerge sync not working

2003-12-18 Thread Glenn Johnson
I have not been able to retrieve updates via emerge sync for several hours. I get th following from all servers I have tried: >>> cancelling sync because this server timestamp is the same as local timestamp Here is what is in /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp: Wed Dec 17 16:10:51 UTC 2003 Surely

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync not working

2003-12-18 Thread Marius Mauch
On 12/18/03 Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have not been able to retrieve updates via emerge sync for several > hours. I get th following from all servers I have tried: > > >>> cancelling sync because this server timestamp is the same as local > >timestamp > Here is what is in /usr/portage/metadata/

[gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Redeeman
hmm, i start X, and numlock isnt on.. how to make it become that automatically? any ideas? thanks! -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:58, Redeeman wrote: > hmm, i start X, and numlock isnt on.. how to make it become that > automatically? emerge numlockx and add the following line to your ~/.xsession: exec numlockx Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver depends on pfeifer-sources?

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Bartels
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > go to virtuals file and remove pfiefer-kelnel from the kernel line... > i had similar problem with ck-sources and alsa... > i mean this file : > /var/cache/edb/virtuals mh...there was no pfeifer-sources entry in this file. i added pfeifer-sources o

RE: [gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
>-Original Message- >From: Redeeman > >hmm, i start X, and numlock isnt on.. how to make it become that >automatically? > >any ideas? I believe there is an option in the "XF86Config" config file to turn this on. I'm not at a linux box, so I can't look this up. I'd either use the man page o

[gentoo-user] Re: How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-18 Thread Christian Rubbert
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:29:01 -0500 Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently > > using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ? > > About the only sort of global metrics we can easily poll are DNS > stats. The gentoo.org name servers answer 6MM

Re: [gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Redeeman
that i have already tested, does it work? no On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 18:07, Jon Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:58, Redeeman wrote: > > hmm, i start X, and numlock isnt on.. how to make it become that > > automatically? > > emerge numlockx and add the following line to your ~/.xsession: > e

Re: [gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 10:29, Redeeman wrote: > that i have already tested, does it work? no I have been using it on all 3 of my Gentoo boxes without any problems. What happens if you are in X with the numlock off and you execute numlockx? It should turn on your numlock. If it does, perhaps it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekly

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 20:47, dave i wrote: > You dont have to upgrade anything you dont want to, `emerge -p world` > wants to install/upgrade/downgrade 227 packages out of the 517 I have > installed, and it hasn't blown up yet Which I think is a critical point. If I run `emerge -p world` I get (to

Re: [gentoo-user] X and numlock

2003-12-18 Thread Manuel Pérez López
How do I get numlock to start on boot?  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#doc_chap5_sect7 If you log on graphically, or want numlock to be activated when you issue startx, then you must emerge numlockx and add /usr/X11R6/bin/numlockx to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (for startx) or /etc/X11/Sessions

[gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
I was wondering on how gentoo is financed and kept running. Up till now I was using Suse which is pretty stable and I can expect that Sue will continue living. In the worst case it will probably be bought (like now from Novell) but the distribution itself will survive. I now installed gentoo last w

Re: [gentoo-user] How to force reinstallation

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:35:33 -0600, "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You shouldn't have to build and install Mesa. The program "opengl-update" >just changes some links from "/usr/lib" to another directory. The files for >your "mesa" build are still there. Just not lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Redeeman
as far as i know, gentoo is being maintained by free will, and it think some ppl are donating too, but basically im sure its done by ppl in their free time! On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 19:27, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: > I was wondering on how gentoo is financed and kept running. Up till now I was > using

Re: [gentoo-user] local rsync server

2003-12-18 Thread Oliver Lange
Kurt Lieber wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:00:49PM +0100 or thereabouts, Oliver Lange wrote: The gentoo rsync mirror guide explains how to setup a public rsync mirror. What about an easier guide for the home user who wants to setup a simple LAN rsync mirror ? Should be easy to understand and al

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: I was wondering on how gentoo is financed and kept running. Up till now I was using Suse which is pretty stable and I can expect that Sue will continue living. In the worst case it will probably be bought (like now from Novell) but the distribution itself will survive. I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekl...

2003-12-18 Thread Brian Downey
>Which I think is a critical point. If I run `emerge -p world` I get (today) 82 packages that it wants to upgrade/downgrade/whatever. >I wouldn't dare - my system works! >That's the key, IMHO - if you only upgrade an individual package (and it's dependencies) when you really think it is necessary (

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread brett holcomb
Gentoo is no different than any other project. It's been going for quite awhile now. There was a thread on this not long ago so you might want to check the archives. On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:27:03 +0100 "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering on how gentoo is financed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Manuel Pérez López
El Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2003 19:49, Thomas Smith escribió: > There are no guarantees for *any* software--commercial, open source, or > otherwise. Yes but... if a big community supports the development of a Linux distribution, perhaps this distribution is more surely his permanence in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:49:57 -0700 Thomas Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I chose Gentoo because it has features I'm looking for and is the most | configurable distro I've found (beyond going to LFS). IMO Gentoo is more configurable than LFS. Why? Because if you try to deviate even slightly fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Manuel Pérez López wrote: El Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2003 19:49, Thomas Smith escribió: There are no guarantees for *any* software--commercial, open source, or otherwise. Yes but... if a big community supports the development of a Linux distribution, perhaps this distribution is more

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:49:57 -0700 Thomas Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I chose Gentoo because it has features I'm looking for and is the most | configurable distro I've found (beyond going to LFS). IMO Gentoo is more configurable than LFS. Why? Because if you try to de

[gentoo-user] File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Balamuth
Hello List, Being a newbie to gentoo, I'd like to know if there is a simple way to extract the file list and file destinations for a package like one can do in debian? Thanks, Michael Balamuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Alan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:24:02PM -0500, Michael Balamuth wrote: > Hello List, > Being a newbie to gentoo, I'd like to know if there is a simple way to > extract the file list and file destinations for a package like one can do in > debian? emerge gentoolkit qpkg -L -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:27, Alan wrote: > emerge gentoolkit > qpkg -L I think you made a typo ;-). It's qpkg -l Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> Being a newbie to gentoo, I'd like to know if there is a simple way to > extract the file list and file destinations for a package like one can > do in debian? Don't know how Debian does it, but you can see what files "belong" to a specific package by entering 'qpkg -l ' on the command line. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread croz
CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME HOW TO GET MYSELF OFF THIS DAMN NEWSGROUPS UR ALL MORONS ASKING DUMBASS QUESTIONS. YOUR STUPID. FUCK! TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS SHITHOLE! I FORGOT !!$*(!&$ FUCK YOU ALL! - Original Message - From: "Gerhard W. Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

[gentoo-user] courier-imap blocks bastille?

2003-12-18 Thread Reno Romanin
why would that happen? and is there a way aound it?       emerge -p /usr/portage/app-admin/bastille/bastille-2.1.1-r1.ebuild   These are the packages that I would merge, in order:   Calculating dependencies ...done![ebuild  N    ] net-firewall/iptables-1.2.8-r1[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Bit-V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: quote from distrowatch weekl...

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:50:35PM -0500, Brian Downey wrote: > I actually use Gentoo on a majority of my servers. Some of them bigger > than others, and a few that are at least over a year old. For me, > security is paramount to stability. It's a tough call to make, but what > good is a stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Fabrizio Cardarello
Il gio, 2003-12-18 alle 20:37, croz ha scritto: > CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME HOW TO GET MYSELF OFF THIS DAMN NEWSGROUPS > UR ALL MORONS ASKING DUMBASS QUESTIONS. YOUR STUPID. FUCK! TELL ME HOW TO > REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS SHITHOLE! I FORGOT !!$*(!&$ FUCK YOU ALL! You are crazy!! Fabrizio -

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:27:03PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > The only thing I wonder about is if I can expect gentoo being still > available in a year (so to speak). There are too many smart people who think it's the best linux available for it to just vaporize without a trace. If / when

[gentoo-user] RE: Files from package

2003-12-18 Thread Michael Balamuth
Many thanks. qpkg -l is what I needed and double thanks as I hadn't found gentoolkit yet which addresses MANY other questions. Thanks again Michael Balamuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Patrick Börjesson
> CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME HOW TO GET MYSELF OFF THIS DAMN > NEWSGROUPS UR ALL MORONS ASKING DUMBASS QUESTIONS. YOUR STUPID. FUCK! > TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS SHITHOLE! I FORGOT !!$*(!&$ > FUCK YOU ALL! Nice... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Börjesson -- Public key ID: 4C5AB0B

RE: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
Uhh...No, I don't know how to remove you from this newsgroups. Sorry and have a nice day. -Original Message- From: croz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING

Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap blocks bastille?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:38:06PM -0600, Reno Romanin wrote: >why would that happen? and is there a way aound it? Bastille depends on mailx, which in turn depends on a virtual/mta which is bringing in courier (the real deal, not just courier-imap). The courier package blocks with any virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL -- how to start using it?

2003-12-18 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:13:53AM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:07 pm, N. Owen Gunden wrote: > > As I understand it, here's what I need to do: > > > > - Install kernel 2.6.0-test11 > > - Set the nptl USE flag > > - emerge glibc (2.3.2 ok?) > > - emerge wine > > > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Spider
begin quote On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:37:47 -0500 "croz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME HOW TO GET MYSELF OFF THIS DAMN > NEWSGROUPS UR ALL MORONS ASKING DUMBASS QUESTIONS. YOUR STUPID. > FUCK! TELL ME HOW TO REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS SHITHOLE! I FORGOT > !!$*(!&$ FUCK

Re: [gentoo-user] File list from package?

2003-12-18 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Michael Balamuth wrote: >Hello List, >Being a newbie to gentoo, I'd like to know if there is a simple way to >extract the file list and file destinations for a package like one can do in >debian? As other have posted you can use qpkg, or if you are familiar with rpm you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:37, croz wrote: > CAN SOMEONE MOTHERFUCKING TELL ME HOW TO GET MYSELF OFF THIS DAMN NEWSGROUPS > UR ALL MORONS ASKING DUMBASS QUESTIONS. YOUR STUPID. FUCK! TELL ME HOW TO > REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS SHITHOLE! I FORGOT !!$*(!&$ FUCK YOU ALL! grow up -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Availabillity of gentoo

2003-12-18 Thread Ron
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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Collins
On Thursday 18 December 2003 08:37, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:10:03 -0800, Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Not quite, grub will work with either a grub.conf or the older menu.lst > > file for configuration. Please post the contents of your configuration, > > if the fo

[gentoo-user] /sbin/splash error

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
Whenever I boot up any of my Gentoo boxes, I see the following error scroll by over and over. /sbin/splash Usage: splash logstring splash -s [-u unit] -n [cfgfile] This is the output of /sbin/splash if you run it without passing it any parameters. I traced it to /etc/init.d/functions.sh,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Young
((# of register gentoo users on the forms) - (# of registered users that have left gentoo) - ( number of users that have registers twice)) * (1/(percent of users that register)) # of register gentoo users on the forms = 36789 guess # of registered users that have left gentoo ~ 1000 # number of use

[gentoo-user] Inconsistency detected by ld.so

2003-12-18 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello List, I switched to Linux 2.6.0 and I recompiled glibc with nptl support (X didn't work so I recompiled glibc againg without nptl.) Now, if I do: $ /lib/libc.so.6 I get: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1252: dl_main: Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-script trouble

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:27, Makurin Roman wrote: > I wrote rc-script for linux_logo. How > can I disable final "[ok]" mark ? If you copied another script and it has an `eend` command in it, just remove the eend command. (it's what sends the [ok] or [!!]) I tested it and it seems ok; if it doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] quiet mode?

2003-12-18 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:53, sir03me wrote: > Can you set me up such that i can read and take part in the mailing list, but > don't get emailed? I rather participate via gmane, thus meaning there is no > need for my in-box to become filled. For what it's worth, mailing lists that are handled by

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB booting problem

2003-12-18 Thread Gerhard W . Gruber
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:19:39 -0800, Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sounds like you have an older version of grub installed. Grub has recognized >grub.conf for a long time. If this is the case then it wouldn't be my fault. I installed via emerge only last week. :) But come to think of it,

[gentoo-user] aureal8830 and kernel 2.6 alsa drivers

2003-12-18 Thread Simon Mushi
Hey folks, I'm running 2.6.0test11 and I would like to throw an Aureal8830 soundcard (in addition to my SbLive) into my box. The card is listed as supported on the alsa-project web page...however, it is not listed as one of the kernel options I can chose to compile my kernel. Does this mean it is

[gentoo-user] Upgrading kernels

2003-12-18 Thread Thomas Smith
I emerged gentoo-sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9) which is an upgrade from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6. The problem is that when I run "genkernel --config" it loads the r6 release. How can I tell genkernel to use the new, r9 sources? Pointers to docs are also helpful--I wasn't able to find any for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading kernels

2003-12-18 Thread Jon Ellis
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:56, Thomas Smith wrote: > I emerged gentoo-sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9) which is an upgrade > from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6. The problem is that when I run "genkernel > --config" it loads the r6 release. > > How can I tell genkernel to use the new, r9 sources? make su

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading kernels

2003-12-18 Thread Scharf Yuval
You should point the symlink /usr/src/linux to the new directory in /usr/src Yuval Scharf On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Thomas Smith wrote: > I emerged gentoo-sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9) which is an upgrade > from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6. The problem is that when I run "genkernel > --config" it load

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading kernels

2003-12-18 Thread Ben Sparks
Thomas Smith wrote: I emerged gentoo-sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9) which is an upgrade from linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6. The problem is that when I run "genkernel --config" it loads the r6 release. How can I tell genkernel to use the new, r9 sources? Pointers to docs are also helpful--I wasn't a

[gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line

2003-12-18 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello list, This is the first time I am installing gentoo. In the past I've used RH and Debian. After getting a fresh gentoo distribution I ran into a problem right at the beginning of the installation steps. When using lvm to create a volume group I get: vgcreate vg /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/l

Re: [gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line

2003-12-18 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:15, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > /dev/hda351 7296 58203495 83 Linux ^ For a LVM partition it's type need to be 8e (LVM) not 83. Change it to 8e save out in fdisk, reboot and do your lvm commands again. Jayson

RE: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> > state would mean that it doesn't let the program terminate > properly, so this is probably a mozilla bug. "wee" . Feel free to file > at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ . Dont forget "emerge info" > > //Spider > Spider, On my dad's machine (which has this defunct process) here's running Mozil

RE: [gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line

2003-12-18 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Thanks a lot. It works. I am impressed with the prompt response/solution; 4 minutes. -- Valmor >= Original Message From Jayson Garrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:15, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> /dev/hda351 7296 58203495 83 Linux >

RE: [gentoo-user] vgcreate -- no valid physical volumes in command line

2003-12-18 Thread Jayson Garrell
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:46, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Thanks a lot. It works. > I am impressed with the prompt response/solution; 4 minutes. Glad I could help. Jayson Garrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can`t emerge glibc-2.3.3_prexxxx

2003-12-18 Thread Makurin Roman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I try to execute #USE="nptl" emerge glibc I`ve got ambiguous error: * Checking for sufficient version kernel headers ... no * Could not find a kernel source tree or headers with * version 2.6.0 or later! Please correct this * and try aga

[gentoo-user] Native Kde app like acme for gnome

2003-12-18 Thread Makurin Roman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have we got such app in the portage tree ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/4jyHufAZCWBpz4kRAmWtAJwPK9C8Jl6wvaRmFYGWJkfTbYQLfwCeLQME YuGwndGoSJgbsglQK9lyoCM= =ODlp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] How many gentoo users ?

2003-12-18 Thread Oliver Lange
Robert Young wrote: many read the forms but never post??? assume 60 - 10. Assume 5 % just RTFM) percent of users that register 35 to 85 (36789 - 1000 - 1000)*(1/.35) = 99397 to (36789 - 1000 - 1000)*(1/.85) = 40928 :)... nice attempt. Maybe there are more users who just RTFM/never post.. Might ha

Re: [gentoo-user] zeroing out files and unused diskspace

2003-12-18 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Johan Van den Neste wrote: Are there any tools in portage that do this? I had a quick look, but I can't really find one. I mainly want this for use in a vmware gentoo install, to minimize the size of a compressed image. I do not know about such tools, but know the trick how to do it: just w

Re: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Oliver Lange
Mark Knecht wrote: If someone else has a Mozilla 1.5 machine with this item happening, then I'd suggest they file the bug report. I see the same thing in my process list, the isn't added by gtop, but by top (that ugly ole' thing), and - yes, i'm running Mozilla 1.5. I'm not sure if it's really

RE: [gentoo-user] netstat

2003-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
> Mark Knecht wrote: > >If someone else has a Mozilla 1.5 machine with this item > happening, then > > I'd suggest they file the bug report. > > > > I see the same thing in my process list, the isn't > added by gtop, > but by top (that ugly ole' thing), and - yes, i'm running Mozilla 1.5. > I'

[gentoo-user] Normal user read/write to hard disk.

2003-12-18 Thread Dane Elwell
Hey all. I recently got an 80G drive which I've installed and formatted with ext3, however I'm having trouble mounting it so my normal user has read/write access to it. I can get read access, but I want/need write access. I know about editing my /etc/fstab, and I've tried so many different opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t emerge glibc-2.3.3_prexxxx

2003-12-18 Thread Jerry McBride
Forgive my top-posting... First, point /usr/src/linux to the 2.6.0 kernel sources that you have. Second, if you do this, you won't be able to boot any kernel other than 2.6.0 kernels. Good luck. On Thursday 18 December 2003 06:40 pm, Makurin Roman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [gentoo-user] local rsync server

2003-12-18 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 December 2003 18:47, Oliver Lange wrote: > Just emerged it, understood nothing and unemerged it again. > I think i'll stay with the easy method: just calling > 'emerge sync' on all my boxes.. redshat root # cat /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf #u

Re: [gentoo-user] Can`t emerge glibc-2.3.3_prexxxx

2003-12-18 Thread Makurin Roman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Forgive my top-posting... > > First, point /usr/src/linux to the 2.6.0 kernel sources that you have. I`ve got this symlink > Second, if you do this, you won't be able to boot any kernel other than > 2.6.0 kernels. I don`t have ony othe

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