Re: [gentoo-user] portage and package specific CFLAGS

2005-03-31 Thread Aaron Walker
will be whatever CFLAGS is in your env, not whatever. Cheers - -- Zeere's nu secret tu belunce-a. Yuoo joost hefe-a tu feel zee vefes. Bork Bork Bork! -- Dervee Oodrede-a Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] strip

2005-03-30 Thread Aaron Walker
: alias debug=USE='debug' FEATURES='nostrip' CFLAGS='-ggdb3' CXXFLAGS='-ggdb3' Then you can just do: $ debug emerge foo Cheers - -- Muney is a pooerffool ephrudeesiec. Boot flooers vurk elmust es vell. Bork Bork Bork! -- Lezeroos Lung Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++ emerge error!

2005-02-24 Thread Aaron Walker
. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHcwIC3poscuANHARAtsHAKChFxGUNct2SCroNgsHheEAL8wirgCgooHg cFwhv/OSeT6rbJEfXMVdoeM= =sZGA -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] wow! 463 packages emerged and only one failure

2005-02-22 Thread Aaron Walker
. The Gentoo developers and package maintainers really do a great job of making Gentoo work. Thanks! Thanks for the thanks! Sometimes users forget we volunteer to do this stuff, so it's nice to see these kind of mails every once in a while ;) Cheers - -- Thank god!! ... It's HENNY YOUNGMAN!! Aaron

Re: [gentoo-user] Distro for SBC's

2005-02-21 Thread Aaron Walker
-embedded ML and I know for certain there is a #gentoo-embedded on irc.freenode.org. HTH - -- I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. -- John D. Rockefeller Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-19 Thread Aaron Walker
. For SVN integration, emerge app-vim/svncommand. Cheers - -- Keep it short for pithy sake. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] When 2005.0 release

2005-02-12 Thread Aaron Walker
, not a release date. Cheers - -- One picture is worth 128K words. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | web-apps ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring net activity

2005-02-12 Thread Aaron Walker
is worth 128K words. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | web-apps ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCDj66C3poscuANHARAtjFAJoD2A2wc6hwwkSXgpld22HqjlFV0ACePGhc wL1vWJBea1i+vaFx/XF+Z2o= =JMDq -END PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc Recompile after Linux-headers change

2005-02-08 Thread Aaron Walker
- -- What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Shell scripting naming conventions

2005-02-07 Thread Aaron Walker
should be all lowercase - *DO NOT* use '-' as a separator for identifiers. While bash supports it (when not invoked in posix mode), most shells do not. For example instead of naming a function 'foo-bar()', use 'foo_bar()' instead. HTH - -- BOFH Excuse #191: Just type 'mv * /dev/null'. Aaron Walker

Re: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-07 Thread Aaron Walker
bash scripting - i would not mind learning more about this... emerge abs-guide then access it with your favorite browser at /usr/share/doc/abs-guide-VERSION/HTML - -- ``Erik 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 is a big number Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools

Re: [gentoo-user] mgetty-1.1.30 emerge fails

2005-02-04 Thread Aaron Walker
info. HTH - -- Cat, n.: Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCAy1bC3poscuANHARAuHhAKDJODCbAdxfI82Uzw7mWa1GdYecugCdEuwp jQYiF

Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

2005-02-03 Thread Aaron Walker
have accepted Provolone into my life! Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCAeupC3poscuANHARAs+9AKDp0m2VLHQgKpmj/rl0wg/wfAtB6gCeOnDL xdt/HJZtg4EwZoexNg3XhgM= =HR91

Re: [gentoo-user] E-Mailing the result of emerge -upv world

2005-02-01 Thread Aaron Walker
the packages that have been updated since your last sync. Those packages for which updates are available have a U (like emerge) next to them. Cheers - -- Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon ] -BEGIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way for emerge to work directly with a cvs tree

2005-01-27 Thread Aaron Walker
- -- What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Gentoo/BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+KOOC3poscuANHARAnpWAJ0Uf78VPJVgyshu+a8

Re: [gentoo-user] Devilspie doesn't emerge (BUG)

2005-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
cannot buy beer; you can only rent it. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/ Gentoo/BSD | cron | shell-tools http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI appointment/todo list reminder program?

2005-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
, let's see, there's also app-misc/ccal, which is a ncurses-based calendar app. Not sure if any of these are what you are looking for though. Cheers - -- Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops. -- Groucho Marx Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.1.901 Build Error ?

2005-01-11 Thread Aaron Walker
/ - -- Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/ Gentoo/BSD | cron | shell-tools http://butsugenjitemple.org/~ka0ttic/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB41u

Re: [gentoo-user] deleting /dev/hda1 partition

2004-02-26 Thread Aaron Walker
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:51, Christian Herzyk wrote: Have you thought of using LVM? I do not know you system layout, but you can only have 4 primary partitions, one of these will probably be the extended partition. LVM allows you to have as many volumes as you need and even to resize

[gentoo-user] gnome and NPTL?

2004-02-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Last night I decided to use my other desktop machine and see if I could successfully setup a 2.6 NPTL box running X and Gnome (I've setup a few NPTL server machines with no problems), before I messed up my main machine attempting to do it. I've had a few compile problems so far, but those have

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up 2.6 system from scratch

2004-02-14 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:33, Jonas Pedersen wrote: Hi everybody I am going to install a fresh gentoo on my laptop in a week or so. I plan using kernel 2.6. I know gentoo is using devfs as default, but I can see that it is OBSOLOTE in 2.6 kernels. I can see devfs have been replaced by

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and NPTL?

2004-02-14 Thread Aaron Walker
Itamar Ravid wrote: Would help if you post to the list the errors you received while compiling. I remember having some problems with pygtk recently, but can't quite remember how/if I solved them. Could not write method GdkWindow.set_icon_list: No ArgType for 'Glist*' snipped a couple screens

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome and NPTL?

2004-02-14 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 15:57, Itamar Ravid wrote: Ah, I remember now. Do a re-emerge with CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing. This one will fail. (CFLAGS=-fno-strict-aliasing emerge pygtk). You'll see near the start of the errors, that libtool is looking for libGL.* in the wrong place. `locate

Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 B.S.!!!!!

2004-02-13 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:10, Collins Richey wrote: Unfortunately, I've been running 2.5/2.6 too long now to remember 2.4 results all that well, but I can certainly echo your description of the compile process. I'm running an 'emerge -e system' to a clone of my system in a chroot right now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad, kernel 2.6, XFree 3.3

2004-02-13 Thread Aaron Walker
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:08, Jose González Gómez wrote: Oh... what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that was... I wasn't aware of the synaptics ebuild ! Thanks a lot regards Jose Same response here! haha *runs off to 'emerge synaptics' Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get past 2.6.1

2004-02-11 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:09, rh wrote: Have been using the development-sources for a while now with great luck and am currently running 2.6.1. However, even though all versions after this will compile, they will not boot...they crash on boot with a kernel panic...attempt to kill init. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.3.2

2004-02-11 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:18, Jeff Smelser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am compiling gcc. Not sure why its looking at /proc, but out of 4 machines, this is the first one to fail anyone have an answer for this? Thanks * This sys-libs/glibc has __guard object

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 11:00, Stephen Liu wrote: cat /etc/fstab found following difference. ReiserFS changed to xfs; /dev/ROOT/xfsnoatime0 0 following line being added; none/dev/shmtmpfsdefaults 0 0 This happened to me

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 14:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Aaron, Thanks for your response. I have not run 'etc-update'. My problem is 'I can't start Gentoo box'. Can you please advise in detail about your fix. TIA B.R. Stephen You must edit /etc/fstab and put your filesystem definitions

[gentoo-user] gnome version differences

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
I just upgraded from gnome-2.4.1 = gnome-2.4.2, however clicking on About GNOME in the gnome-panel submenu still shows ver 2.4.1 with a build date of Dec 19th (when I last installed Gentoo). Anyone else experience this? Just want to make sure I am actually running 2.4.2 (can't see why I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome version differences

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:03, fifo wrote: What version does emerge -s gnome-panel say you have installed? * gnome-base/gnome-panel Latest version available: 2.4.2 Latest version installed: 2.4.2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] mailing rotated logs

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
A few days ago I finally finished setting up my old P233 to act as a firewall for my home LAN. I am using metalog for the logger and have it filtering all netfilter logging into /var/log/iptables, and rotating the file daily. I already have postfix and everything set up so that any mail to root

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing rotated logs

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:33, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: cron demon is your friend just write a command which sends file e.g.: mail -s iptables log /path/logfile to crontab in /var/spool or better to /etc/cron.daily/iptables.mail (U can find some examples in that dir.) noro Yes I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome version differences

2004-02-10 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 17:08, Andrew Cowie wrote: Have you actually *logged out*? Some things are factory based (ie gnome-terminal) so upgrading the binary won't affect running processes until they're [all] restarted. [I ran in to this (although I was expecting and looking for it)] AfC

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script problems ...

2004-02-08 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:19, lukas wrote: You normaly can see these messages while your system is coming up. When you are logged in you can also type dmesg | less to see them. I get ... cant find module /dev/rtc cant find module /dev/misc/rtc Are you shure that devfsd is proper

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an mtools for USB

2004-02-07 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 14:13, Rob2 wrote: I ask because the Dell 8600 ships with a USB floppy drive. The regular mtools won't work. Thanks, Rob. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list What do you need mtools for? Never messed with a USB floppy drive before, but I can't imagine its much

[gentoo-user] recommended kernel for gateway/firewall

2004-02-06 Thread Aaron Walker
I am setting up a P233-MMX as a gateway/firewall for my home LAN, and was wondering if anyone could recommend a kernel for this purpose. Obviously, stability and security are of the highest concern. Any recommendations? Thanks, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how are the eth's created

2004-02-05 Thread Aaron Walker
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 22:18, Valmor de Almeida wrote: I have both drivers compiled into the kernel at the moment and I wish I knew why eth1 is not available. Anyway, I will try your suggestion. Does anyone know a good source on linux ethernet networking? Thanks, -- Valmor de Almeida

[gentoo-user] emerge showing package as new, but is not

2004-02-05 Thread Aaron Walker
I've been wondering this for a while.. why does emerge show some packages as new, even when they are already installed? For example, on my laptop, 'emerge -uD world -p' shows python as being N, and on my desktop machine, it shows linux-headers as being N. It has made me hesitant to install those

Re: [gentoo-user] JFlex?

2004-02-04 Thread Aaron Walker
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:47, Matt Wilson wrote: Hey folks, Just wondering if anybody knew if JFlex was available in portage? (And if so, where?) Matt -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ - A great source for free CGI and stuff Nuke the unborn gay female whales for Jesus. Matt,

[gentoo-user] using tmpfs

2004-02-03 Thread Aaron Walker
Last night, while at work, I was trying to think of ways to reduce disk usage on my laptop (thus increasing battery life). I already mount /tmp as tmpfs, and was wondering what else might be a good idea to mount as tmpfs.. I figured /var/log might be a good candidate, so I stopped metalog,

Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?

2004-02-03 Thread Aaron Walker
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:00, Brock Campbell wrote: I haven't spent a lot of time on these things, but they have been flaky for me. It's on a Dell Insp.4150. APM, ACPI. lost the ability to suspend. screen blanking doesn't work. Winmodem. I bought the Linuxant drivers, now when I install

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended 2.6 kernel

2004-02-02 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 09:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:32:54 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the recommend Gentoo portage package to use for the 2.6 | kernel? | I would like to use the latest, but a semblance of stability will | override

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update portage

2004-02-02 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:05, HORSTMAN, MARK A (SBCSI) wrote: I recently (1/30/2004) installed Gentoo 1.4 from an x86 LiveCD ISO using stage3 and the portage-20040129.tar.bz2 snapshot. Afterward I performed an 'emerge sync' and then a 'emerge -u system'. The 'emerge -u system' gets stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't update portage

2004-02-02 Thread Aaron Walker
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:05, HORSTMAN, MARK A (SBCSI) wrote: I recently (1/30/2004) installed Gentoo 1.4 from an x86 LiveCD ISO using stage3 and the portage-20040129.tar.bz2 snapshot. Afterward I performed an 'emerge sync' and then a 'emerge -u system'. The 'emerge -u system' gets stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight httpd

2004-02-01 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 10:53, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Hey all, I'm thinking of setting up a small httpd on my desktop computer. Since I have a dynamic IP and no extra box to use as a server, I just want something really simple that will let me serve static files, e.g. torrents, images, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 2.6.* headers?

2004-02-01 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 07:59, Alec Berryman wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:54:52AM +, Matt Wilson wrote: as well). So I was wondering if there's anyway I can use 2.6.* headers for compilation instead? I'm using 2.6.1 without any problems and am considering giving NPTL a try and once

[gentoo-user] couple of questions.. PAM sysfs

2004-02-01 Thread Aaron Walker
Just installed 2.6 and NPTL on an old P233 that I am messing around with, and had a couple of questions. Firstly, when booting it says /sys does not exist and that 2.6 requires it. I figured the sysfs was setup automatically because I didnt have to do it manually on all 3 of my other Gentoo 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging webalizer [SOLVED]

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron Walker
It was libgd... I didn't have png set in the USE var. It's been almost a week since I first tried to emerge webalizer, and I forgot that it relied on libgd, since it emerged correctly then. Thanks Again, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] My grub is dead

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:45, rh wrote: Hello. Don't really know what has caused this but my Gentoo box will not properly re-boot...it stops in the grub shell. From the shell, I can execute root, setup, kernel, configfile and boot commands and they all seem to work fine. So as far as I

[gentoo-user] using ~x86 for bootstrap

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron Walker
I am messing around with an old P233 MMX, and was going to try and get NPTL working on it. I set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~x86 and started bootstrap-2.6.sh. Half way through I remembered that the install guide says not to set ~x86 until after the bootstrap phase.. It's probably 3/4 of the way done

Re: [gentoo-user] using ~x86 for bootstrap

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 17:02, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It's quite often broken. particularly if you use old stages. You're far less likely to get compile errors if you bootstrap as arch and then update to ~arch once you have an up-to-date system. This is especially the case on non-x86, where

Re: [gentoo-user] Driverloader installation

2004-01-31 Thread Aaron Walker
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 23:08, Benjamin Blazke wrote: Hi, anybody knows how to install in Gentoo the driverloader package from www.linuxant.com? From 'Driverloader installation': --- Once this process is completed, your device should appear as a normal network interface which can be

Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)

2004-01-30 Thread Aaron Walker
Meka[ni] wrote: Is there some kind of office that is not so huge like Open Office? I actually need Excel, but if there is an office that is small enough (source not above 20mb) I would like to test it. Please anyone. I need it for some test on the university. Thanx. :o)

[gentoo-user] problem emerging webalizer

2004-01-30 Thread Aaron Walker
When attempting to emerge webalizer-2.01.10-r4 (using NPTL and ~x86) on my web/mail server, I get the following: snipped (everything compiled w/o warnings before this gcc -L/usr/lib -o webalizer webalizer.o hashtab.o linklist.o preserve.o parser.o output.o dns_resolv.o graphs.o -lgd -lpng -lz

Re: [gentoo-user] How to skip hotplugging?

2004-01-30 Thread Aaron Walker
Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi. Last 1.4 basic iso image hangs on my laptop Compaq 2500 series, after issuing the message starting usb and pci hotplugging ... I tried the boot options acpi nousb dokeymap but the same thing happens! Isn't is supposed nousb to skip the hotplugging phase? I went back to

[gentoo-user] USB thumb drive weirdness

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron Walker
I have a Memorex 128MB USB ThumbDrive that I got a couple months ago. I hadn't even used it until earlier today. I had checked last week to see if it worked and everything. Had no problems mounting it. I did the following to test it: # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb # nano /mnt/usb/lala

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile Error when emerging gnome

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron Walker
Francois Méan wrote: Hi, I got this error when emerging gnome : /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh line 312 cabextract : command not found Error x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 failed Function src_unpack, line 312 , exit code 127 (no error message) Can someone helps me ? Regards, Francois. My guess would be that you

Re: [gentoo-user] no subject

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron Walker
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:34:05 +0100 virtual persia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s there a way to copy the current online portage-tree onto a usb-stick or something like that and thus replace ones own portage-tree with these files? I don't have an internet connection at home but I

Re: [gentoo-user] My system can't fint /boot -- Help!

2004-01-28 Thread Aaron Walker
Krikket wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:38, Krikket wrote: Now my computer can't locate module: /dev/BOOT and /dev/ROOT. It reccomends I run e2fsck -b 8193 device. As a bit of after the fact advice, be very careful about etc-update and

[gentoo-user] best way to backup

2004-01-24 Thread Aaron Walker
Came home at 3am this morning to find my main desktop machine locked up solid... Rebooted and all of a sudden heard the dreaded clicking of the hard drive (a 6month old WDC 80GB). I was wanting to reinstall Gentoo on my main desktop anyways, but this wasn't quite what I had in mind...

Re: [gentoo-user] New glibc and gnome 2.4.1 unmasked

2004-01-23 Thread Aaron Walker
Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: Whenever there is a HUGE unmasking of 50-100 packages or more, I get nervous about doing and emerge -Uun world. I saw several messages go by earlier in the week about problems with the new glibc. Have these been resolved? Lincoln -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic power down

2004-01-23 Thread Aaron Walker
Anarconda wrote: Try 'halt' Regards. the '-h' flag does me halt. Aaron -- http://ka0ttic.dyndns.org/ /usr/bin/fortune says: Revenge is a meal best served cold. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem mounting NFS share

2004-01-22 Thread Aaron Walker
On my main desktop machine, I have /usr/portage exported for my mail server and laptop to mount. It is working fine on the mail server (has been for some time now), but when I try to mount it on my laptop I get an error. # /etc/init.d/nfsmount start * Starting portmap... [

Re: [gentoo-user] problem mounting NFS share

2004-01-22 Thread Aaron Walker
Stefan Vunckx wrote: Check if your server is properly setup, meaning he'll have to grant your pc access (see if your IP is in the allowed setup and such). Bonx Yes, I added the IP address of the laptop to /etc/exports on the server. Looks like: /usr/portage

[gentoo-user] laptop keyboard no longer working

2004-01-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Ok, now this one has really stumped me. For some reason, all of a sudden my laptop keyboard isn't working in Gentoo. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 last night, but everything was working fine afterwards. This morning I was trying to finish up the gnome 2.2 - 2.4 upgrade (I

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop keyboard no longer working

2004-01-20 Thread Aaron Walker
Aaron Walker wrote: Ok, now this one has really stumped me. For some reason, all of a sudden my laptop keyboard isn't working in Gentoo. I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 last night, but everything was working fine afterwards. This morning I was trying to finish up the gnome 2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Øystein Olsen wrote: See if you can boot with: acpi=off Well... I took my laptop to work with me last night so I could mess around with it. I reinstalled and decided to run genkernel by itself (as opposed to genkernel --config), and now it boots. I can't say if everything is working (I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Roy Kidder wrote: I haven't played around with standby, but after a standard install, I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.22-gentoo-r4, recompiling with the following (below). This got the gnome battery applet working as well as getting the system to poweroff on shutdown. Of course, after compiling the

Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC!

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello This is just to stop others sharing the misfortune that occurred to me. I updated glibc to 2.3.2-r9 on stable x86 tree and it broke python, portage and also most applications. Do NOT perform this update until bug 38619 [1] has been worked out. Dhruba. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Unicode fonts missing?

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Andrej Kacian wrote: Hi, what do I need installed in order for gucharmap to display exotic characters properly instead of displaying their code in a rectangle? I assume there will be separate package for each unicode character class (latin-a, latin-b, hebrew, ...). Don't know if this is the answer

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Walker
Roy Kidder wrote: I'd love to hear what your results are with the Broadcom chip running in 802.11g mode with the linuxant solution. I've been looking for public (or public) wi-fi in my area of the world that supports 802.11g, but haven't found any. Seems everyone hopped on the public wi-fi

[gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-18 Thread Aaron Walker
I just installed Gentoo on my laptop w/o any troubles, but when going to boot for the first time, it hangs at: right after detecting CPU mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021122 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-18 Thread Aaron Walker
Aaron E. Klemm wrote: You might try using the pci=noacpi boot option in grub when you boot. To do this, hit a at the grub boot screen and then type pci=noacpi at the prompt. Just tried that, but got the same results :( any other ideas, anyone? Thanks again, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop install hanging on first boot

2004-01-18 Thread Aaron Walker
david stevenson wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2004 11:32 pm, Aaron Walker wrote: any other ideas, anyone? Mtrr is an option in the kernel config, you could try a different value. (on or off) David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list w/o mtrr I would not be able to use xfree-drm though, right

[gentoo-user] new install with 2.6 and NPTL

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
A friend just gave me an old computer (Celeron 533), which I was going to replace my P233 Gentoo mail server with. I want to install gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.1 (what I am currently running on the P233), but use NPTL (I have not done this on P233). I remember reading on this list a week or so

[gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
I just purchased my first laptop (haven't even turned it on yet.. still charging ;) ), a HP Pavilion ze4630us, and am wanting to put Gentoo (what else?) on it. Any tips or suggestions for installing Gentoo on a laptop? Anything different about the install I need to do differently from a normal

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo on a laptop

2004-01-17 Thread Aaron Walker
Roy Kidder wrote: I recently installed Gentoo on a Compaq (there is very little differences between the Compaq and HP laptops, other than the name on the case). The install went pretty smoothly. The only odd thing I had to do was turn of legacy support for USB in the BIOS. Other than that, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] problem running mozilla

2004-01-13 Thread Aaron Walker
Pawel Maczewski wrote: I've just compiled mozilla and experienced a problem starting it. First, I get the following error: bash-2.05b$ mozilla grep: /usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/locale.alias: No such file or directory when I created this as a symlink to en-US/locale/en-US/ (in chrome directory), There

[gentoo-user] development-sources vs gentoo-dev-sources

2004-01-13 Thread Aaron Walker
I just recently upgraded from 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 = development-sources-2.6.1_rc1. While browsing the online package database, I saw that there is also a gentoo-dev-sources kernel. What is the difference between development-sources and gentoo-dev-sources? Thanks, Aaron --

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot use ALSA

2004-01-12 Thread Aaron Walker
Sensei wrote: Hi. As I said, I'm trying to use ALSA on an IBM workstation. The sound card is an integrated intel 810 chipset. Now. Every time the system boots, I always get the same modules.conf: [...] ### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules'

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot use ALSA

2004-01-12 Thread Aaron Walker
Sensei wrote: Aaron Walker wrote: Did you edit /etc/modules.conf yes. or /etc/modules.d/alsa? no. I edited it and now works perfectly! Thank you!! For future reference, there are many other things that work like this, such as env.d, cron.d, conf.d, init.d, etc. Aaron -- http

Re: [gentoo-user] am i the only person with genkernel gentoo problems?

2004-01-11 Thread Aaron Walker
HvR wrote: i have genkernel-1.8 and gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r4 gs-sources-2.4.23_pre8-r2 ck-sources-2.4.23-r1 except for gentoo-sources they all build fine when i run genkenrnel on gentoo it will just sit there for 8 hours in make oldconfig why is that? all the previous versions of gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash...

2004-01-11 Thread Aaron Walker
Simon Prosser wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 8:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: Has anyone else here modified the gentoo bootsplash script to support the progress bar? If not, does anyone here know of a URL that I can goto for the information? its all been done for you!

Re: [gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

2004-01-11 Thread Aaron Walker
Ben Munat wrote: Just went to emerge qmail and I got my first blocked package (lucky me, I know). It's blocked by net-mail/ssmtp, which (not surprisingly) belongs to sendmail. So, should I unmerge sendmail? (It seemed like folks on this list liked qmail better than sendmail... anyone disagree?)

Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

2004-01-11 Thread Aaron Walker
gabriel wrote: On January 11, 2004 07:04 pm, Michael Stilson Jr. wrote: Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into gnome fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio) cannot log in to gnome. Looks like permission errors. Is there a group or groups that

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem

2004-01-10 Thread Aaron Walker
jussx wrote: I have emerge ntp and i configured it as client. I have edited /etc/ntp.conf in this way: server blah server blah . . Then i run this cmd : rc-update add ntpd default The problem is that after i rebooted my comp, ntp.conf is changed and it turned to his default configuration, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Memory Usage

2004-01-09 Thread Aaron Walker
Pooh Sun Tzu wrote: Maybe it is just me, but I've never in my entire experience had swap touched. And that is at 400 megs of RAM, in gnome, XFCE4, and fluxbox. Cached, sure. But he is running into swap, and that isn't supposed to happen. When I started using Gentoo, I was using kernel version

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3

2004-01-09 Thread Aaron Walker
pb wrote: gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r3 (released yesterday) doesn't fix any latestst security problems. in fact, it is identical to 2.4.22-r2. i wonder why it has been released and marked as stable... pb -- Public Key: http://teleinfo.tu.kielce.pl/~pb/gpg.asc Glad I decided to wait to upgrade to r3,

Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

2004-01-07 Thread Aaron Walker
Nicholas Hockey wrote: does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the Microsoft Update virus going around, i'm trying to figure out why i get nailed by it all the time, and i apologize for the apparent list spam. ( i believe the virus is called swen or gibe ) -- Many a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge nvidia

2004-01-04 Thread Aaron Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Quick question. I have a machine that runs an nVidia graphics adapter. It appears to have nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel emerged. (I did this 2 months ago and cannot find any notes on what I did.) I just built a new kernel for it and wanted to check that following the

[gentoo-user] trying to be hacked?

2003-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
A week or so ago, I setup my cable router/firewall to forward port 80 to one of my machines so I could run Apache. Last night while at work, I checked to see if it worked, and it did. So just now, I went to check out the access_log and noticed some funny looking stuff, that doesnt look like

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources vs GS-sources

2003-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: The Gentoo docs say gs-sources are more stable and reliable then gentoo-sources but gentoo-sources have better performance. How much more stable are the gs vs gentoo-sources? For those who have used both - what is the difference in performance and stability,

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to be hacked?

2003-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:18:53 -0500 Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | is this someone trying to exploit apache? No, it's someone trying to exploit Microsoft IIS. Very likely to be an automated thing, probably an infected Windows box that still hasn't been cleaned up

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to be hacked?

2003-12-31 Thread Aaron Walker
Jaime D wrote: Actually those are IIS that had been compromised with Code Red or NImda and are scaning port 80 for other IIS. You really don't have to worry about it. Is this the same reason I keep getting spam for MS this and MS that? that crap is really annoying. Aaron -- /usr/bin/fortune

Re: [gentoo-user] I love my gentoo. :)

2003-12-30 Thread Aaron Walker
s wrote: Yeah, I started with Mandrake 7.2. Well, actually I installed several distros for about a year, little less, before that, but always went on back to windows. But mandrake was easy enough for a tickerer like me, even tho that was still 2.2 kernel and not much was autodetected. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim

2003-12-27 Thread Aaron Walker
Roger wrote: How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just want to update it through emerge!!! did you do emerge sync first to get the list of currently available

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-27 Thread Aaron Walker
Gavin Henry wrote: Hi all, During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my

[gentoo-user] getting duplicate emails

2003-12-14 Thread Aaron Walker
I just reinstalled Gentoo on my mail server and have it all setup once again, but I am getting duplicates of all my emails for some reason. I have the following installed: fetchmail-postfix-procmail-uw-imap I used all the config files from my previous setup, so there shouldn't be anything wrong

[gentoo-user] illegal instruction attempting to run emerge

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I upgraded the kernel on my mail server (P233-MMX) from gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8 to gs-sources-2.4.23-pre8, then afterwards emerge'd a binary gcc package compiled on my desktop machine. I rebooted to load the new kernel, and was going to finish 'emerge -u world' but emerge died with Illegal

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