On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:37:39 +
Vittorio wrote:
I'm somewhat confused!
Just yesterday I issued an emerge --rsync, fixpackages, then
emerge -ubD world
Issuing now ls -l /etc/make.profile I get
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 4 gen 18:46 /etc/make.profile
-
Micheal really I've no more ideas, can you try exactly this?
set your CLOCK=UTC
in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/conf.d/clock depending from your baselayout version
# cd /etc
# rm localtime
# ln -s ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome localtime
reboot
if (your time now is CET)
is EST5EDT is broken ?
firstly do you have video devices, they should be created by the bttv
module
cd /dev
find|grep video
there should be something like /dev/v4l/video0
secondly is xawtv using the right device? force t to a particular device with
the -c parameter.
xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0
once you have found the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what is TZ set to?
echo $TZ
this takes preference over the system wide preference set by
/etc/localtime
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500
Michael Haan
I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling:
TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the
systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the
other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting
their TZ variable
now most
No, so the ALSA developers can snicker and laugh at people sending
messages to mailing lists saying their sound isn't working, but it
appears everything's configured properly. =P
I know that I'd make it muted by default if I were one of the ALSA
developers, since it'd be funny to go er.. you
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, pepone pepone wrote:
Hello what is the correct way in gentoo for automatic check partitions
that are not cleane unmounted
If you reboot it will check the partitions if necessary (or use a journal
to make sure they are consistent). To do it manually, you should reboot
into
My keys do that on occasion if I'm running VMware. Logging out and
back in fixes it usually.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:23:03 -0500, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twice today, my keyboard control keys (ctrl, shift, caps lock, etc.)
quit working on both a keyboard and laptop. I've never
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $
Good idea, but no banana.
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:32:39 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling:
TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Kevin wrote:
From watching make menuconfig start up, and glancing at the file it
calls on the command line, I think I've answered my own question.
Looks like the answer to my question is this file:
arch/i386/Kconfig
If you browse through /usr/src/liux you will also see
Micheal,
I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean
re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed
the problem for me.
- Brad
Michael Haan wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $
Good idea, but no banana.
On Fri,
Yes they do it to prove that no one reads documentation.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
has a whole section about it.
I am sure the alsa docs themselves deal with it too.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:33:31 -0600
Keith Gable wrote:
No, so the ALSA developers can snicker and laugh at
I'm wondering if my bios is set to use UTC. Need to check that out.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Micheal,
I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean
re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed
do you also boot windows? if you don't then you can simply leave CLOCK=UTC in
/etc/rc.conf
all that this setting does is define how to translate the hardware/bios
clock to system/kernel time on boot up, and vice versa on shutdown.
It does NOT affect how time is displayed on the system using
Keith Gable wrote:
if I'm running VMware.
Yes, I've been using vmware heavily to configure some servers. Perhaps
that's it. Thx.
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for heaven's sake bradley you only need to post each message once!
you have the list in as to: and cc:
and learn to trim your posts please.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500
Bradley Serbu wrote:
Micheal,
I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean
re-install of
Obviously I know that... I had a no Reply-All memory lapse necessary
because of the robin.gentoo forum transition. It'll be easier on
everyone once the transition takes place.
Nick Rout wrote:
for heaven's sake bradley you only need to post each message once!
you have the list in as to: and
Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds
the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From
before:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime -
/usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use jfs for my home partition and if mount fails i want to aumatic run fsck
maybe i need same expecial option in fstab?
/dev/hdc5 /home/peponejfs noatime
0 0
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:14:28 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 3
Michael Haan wrote:
Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds
the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From
before:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime -
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:07:09 +0100, Julien Cayzac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster
downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets
unreachable after a while (usually one week or two).
Are you experiencing such problems?
I
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:42:21 -0500
Michael Haan wrote:
Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds
the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From
before:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34
Hi all.
I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time
it has grown to over 6 gigs.
I found FINDCRUFT from the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197highlight=findcruft.
When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most
of which
I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster
downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets
unreachable after a while (usually one week or two).
What do you mean by 'unreachable'? emerge --sync reports an error, or is it
more of a network problem that
Hi all.
Just a reminder that saturday 5th marks the monthly bugday aka your
chance to help fix annoying bugs, meet some of the developers and have a
great time in general.
As usual, bugday is held in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net.
Regards,
Bryan stergaard
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700, George Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time
it has grown to over 6 gigs.
I found FINDCRUFT from the forum:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197highlight=findcruft.
When
You can safely drop /var/tmp/portage to reclaim a lot of space.
/usr/portage will typically contain the distribution files for those pieces
that you've emerged; you can remove these but re-emerging/updating would
download them again.
To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing
everything inside /var/tmp/portage can be deleted. this is the area
where portage builds packages. if everything sompletes cleanly there is
usually not too much cruft here, but if an ebuild craps out it can leave
a lot of stuff. PS don't do this in the middle of an active ebuild, it
will well and
George Roberts wrote:
I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it
has downloaded
/usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although
doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if
you ever need to reinstall any of the programs
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:49:30 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4.
Hrm. Are we talking app-vim/colorschemes stuff here? If so, sync and
upgrade.
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Mail: ciaranm at
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700
George Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system.
I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it
has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could
be safely
I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about
mailman before, so I dug up those responses and followed there advice,
setting the mail ID to the daemon's gid in the ebuild and setting the
VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = OFF in mm_cfg.py. I set up a test list and went
out to the website
Michael Haan ha scritto:
Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds
the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From
before:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime -
UPDATE:
I got both apache to start with both the PHP4 and MAILMAN options on the
same line, so that part isn't a problem anymore. I guess it was just a
fluke earlier...
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:52 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about
Michael Sullivan ha scritto:
I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about
mailman before, so I dug up those responses and followed there advice,
setting the mail ID to the daemon's gid in the ebuild and setting the
VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = OFF in mm_cfg.py. I set up a test
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:53 -0600, Keith Gable wrote:
I noticed a key in gconf. It's something like
/apps/panel/profiles/default/applet.4/preferences/channel (or
something to that effect, I have no idea what it actually is
[snip]
I had a play around, and it looks like its the settings for the
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, pepone pepone wrote:
I use jfs for my home partition and if mount fails i want to aumatic run fsck
maybe i need same expecial option in fstab?
/dev/hdc5 /home/peponejfs noatime
Normally checkfs runs fsck BEFORE mounting a file system (file
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that if
I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as
of today would be rebuilt. Or I
On 2005-03-03 11:01:29 -0400 (Thu, Mar), Arran Fraser wrote:
So is the heavy mem usage only during compilation, or do the compilation
speedups result in programs that use lots of memory?
AFAIK it affect only compilation time.
Last time I was using it, heavy mem usage was not noticeable for
George Roberts wrote:
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that if
I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as
of today would
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, A. Khattri wrote:
You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file
/forcefsck (e.g. touch /forcefsck) when shutting down - the next time
you restart it will do a full fsck of all disks.
Not quite. You need to set the last field of each
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:29 -0700
George Roberts wrote:
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today.
no a snapshot is a tarball of the /usr/portage
Holly Bostick wrote:
George Roberts wrote:
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses.
By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the
system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that
if I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in
Hello,
I'm having a problem with two machines I admin. Both are
running identical 2.6.10 kernels:
Linux rhea 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 16:54:22 EST 2005 i686 Pentium
II(Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
One is an SMP machine, and the other is not (but runs an SMP kernel).
This problem
Why,
As I'm aware, the nvidia-kernel doesn't suport anymore old card.
So I've a problem, because I have an nvidia m64. I heared that I could
use nv Driver, and that's what I'm doing, but until now the maximum
that I could do was getting some graphics were I can use the mouse and
nothing more.
When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller then
usual after recent upgrade.
Does anybody knows what is causing it?
Is it worth switching to Thunderbird?
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:54:34PM -0700, Scott Taylor wrote
The ssmtp package sets up a simplistic mail relay that'll allow
local apps to send mail to localhost and ssmtp just forwards it to
a real mail server somewhere else. But you'll need to tell even it
where to send your root emails.
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:19:46PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Did you emerge a java and then run the java config? Check the Gentoo
site for docs on setting up the java.
Does OO *NEED* Java? And if so, why?
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An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on
To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing
source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be
downloaded - again.
There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles,
limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well.
El 04/03/05 00:56:21, Joseph escribió:
When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller
then
usual after recent upgrade.
Does anybody knows what is causing it?
Is it worth switching to Thunderbird?
are you using evolution outside of gnome, i've got to start gnome-
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:12 +, rodrigo wrote:
El 04/03/05 00:56:21, Joseph escribió:
When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller
then
usual after recent upgrade.
Does anybody knows what is causing it?
Is it worth switching to Thunderbird?
are you using
Yes; since when is /boot on /dev/hda? Did you move
your WinXP drive
(which you said was /dev/hda, and does not contain a
/boot directory,
afaik) to another slot on the IDE cable and re-swap
your Linux drive to
the primary master?
I was hoping for something like my previous system
Thanks again to all that have helped me.
After following your instructions I have dropped from over 6 gigs down
to 3.8 gigs, which seems to be a more reasonable figure to me.
I am on a cable connection so re-downloading is not a major issue with me.
My distfiles had grown to 1.2 gigs, and yes
Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount
/proc before chroot:ing?
(That peice is hidden a little earlier in the
handbook).
I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ
re a kernel recompile in a broken system. Only I did a
grub-install instead.
-mw
Chris Cox wrote:
Put the following in your /etc/portage/package.mask (create the file if it
doesn't exist) :
=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629
=media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629
Then emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx and try this version of the nvidia
driver. All versions above
I have the same card. It's a Riva TNT2 M64, 2x AGP. 32 MB (ELSA
ERAZOR III LT). I can send you my xorg.conf if you'd like.
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:40:56 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount
/proc before chroot:ing?
(That peice is hidden a little earlier in the
handbook).
I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ
re a kernel recompile
From what I've seen OOo will use java. In the windows install it was
optional - I could skip it. On Gentoo maybe using -java or someother flag
will disable it.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:19:46PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Did you emerge a java and
Neil Bothwick, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:22:03 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Also, eix is newer and ~x86 only, IIRC.
It's not only ~x86, it's ~x86, ~amd64, ~alpha, ~ia64, ~ppc and ~sparc.
However, as good as eix is, it won't help in this
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:50 +, Mike Williams wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, A. Khattri wrote:
You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file
/forcefsck (e.g. touch /forcefsck) when shutting down - the next time
you restart it will do a full fsck of all
What are the results of this operation for you?
Specific messages please.
YIPPEE! all is cool 8-)
Nobody's suggestions worked. I tried every possible
combination of hdx with the same result: /boot or
/boot/boot or //boot (or some others I don't recall):
Not found or not a block device.
So I
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:05, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote:
emerge esearch
eupdatedb (this is the part that is slower than eix)
esearch -F net-analyzer
Using Ebuild IndeX Version 0.2.1
% eix -A net-analyzer
do the same ;-)
and with esync all you have to do is:
esync and you will
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote:
however, while looking into this, (because I noticed I haven't ever seen
the filesystem check when I shutdown uncleanly) I found
in /etc/init.d/checkfs:
fsck -C -T -R -A -a
now I'm happy with all of that except the -R, according to man fsck:
-R
On Friday 25 February 2005 07:26, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
Hi all,
After using sometime emerge, I noticed that it first compiles the
programs to somedir/work temp dir and later copy contents to the real
prefix /
Does emerge uses that procedure to be able to keep track of what files
Hi.
I have been using apache-2.0.52-r2 and PHP5 for a while... Recently
upgraded to apache-2.0.52-r3 and moved all the configs to the httpd.conf
However, I cannot get PHP5 to work... All browsers try to download the
file, rather than display it...
What could be wrong? I have included what I
I keep my systems reasonably up to date and kind of assume that regular
syncing and updating will keep it safe.
However today I started looking at glsa-check, just to suss it out.
However either I am doing something wrong, or it is stupid.
For example GLSA 200502-09 relates to python. It says
It also will not delete a directory if it isn't empty.
The rest is spot-on though.
John Myers wrote:
NB: I am not an ebuild writer, but I have played with them on occasion, and I
have read the docs.
That said,
Here's how it works:
The ebuild unpacks the source into ${WORKDIR}
I think it does, doesn't it?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:25:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/etc/localtime should be linked to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo that
corresponds to your local time.
Dave Nebinger wrote:
What is /etc/localtime linked to?
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On 2005-03-03 12:53:36 -0500, Covington, Chris wrote:
Is there an ebuild for mod_jk now that mod_jk2 is unsupported?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19094
I've successfully used the 1.2.6 ebuild, but haven't tried 1.2.8 yet.
Add it to your overlay and give it a try.
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