Hello,
I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being done with
etc-update or the baselayout package to stop it pointlessly trying up
update a load of configuration files that I'm never going to let it
touch every time it is updated?
It seems like baselayout's changed quite regularly
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Hello,
I am seeing some strange behaviour from XDM recently. For some reason,
if I let XDM log me in and start a session I end up with twm as my
window manager, whilst if I log in at the console and run 'startx' I get
fvwm, as desired.
Does anyone know
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Andrew Gaffney wrote:
| I'm currently running kernel 2.6.0_test1. I can no longer open a
| gnome-terminal or xterm. Gnome-terminal just sits there but never
| displays a prompt. Xterm exits immediately and prints:
|
| xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such f
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Hello,
I've just upgraded to 2.6.0-test1, and it's working OK. One question -
as ALSA is now part of the kernel, the alsa-driver package is no longer
necessary. However, this means that the init script (alsasound) is no
longer run, which seems to mean
Hello,
How long are the compatibility names going to be necessary for devfsd? I
tried turning them off in /etc/devfsd.conf to see what would happen and
bootup didn't proceed very well, as fdisk was not able to find any
/dev/hda* devices to work on.
This leads to two questions - is there a down
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Hello,
Debian emails messages produced by its packages to a specified user. Why
can't portage do the same? Then people who don't want them can ditch
them and noone need miss out on a 'for God's sake update this conf
before launching prog. x' message ag
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Hello,
I'm starting to feel that life in the ~86 lane is a little too fast for
me at the moment.. I don't have much time due to work and I'd quite like
to have a slightly more reliable system than Gentoo's testing release
gives me.
If I change ~86 to 8
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Hello,
I've seen some strange output when using rc-update, and I'm wondering if
it's a bug or not. Recently my NFS mounts no longer get mounted at
startup despite the netmount service reporting that it has started
successfully, so I tried removing and
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Hello,
Before I get accused of being too offtopic, this is about getting Kazaa
Lite to work with wine on Gentoo in particular..
I've followed numerous different sets of instructions over the web with
no success - has anyone here managed to get Kazaa Li
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Hello,
My feedback re. the new drivers.
I installed the new NVidia drivers yesterday.. they work, but I get a
horizontal 1 pixel line about an inch up from the bottom of the screen.
The mouse pointer moves above this line, but everything else is below
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|
| What with variables the user is setting but root needs them not set?
Currently
| I am using [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get root from my k(!)onsole. It works great...
| And by this way the variables WANT_AUTOMAKE_* and co which the user
has set
| are not s
Hello,
Related to my recent question on gentoo-user regarding freeing up disk
space, I've just written a short bash script that helps tidying up the
binary packages that portage builds (see below).
All it does it take each file in the distfiles and packages directories
and use qpkg to see if t
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Hi,
I know about du; that's what I'm using at the moment (du / -mx
- --max-depth 1 being good to get an overview). What I was wondering was
about a way of doing this in a package orientated way instead of a file
oriented way.. ie. I want to know that n
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Hello,
Is there a tool around that can tell me which packages on my system are
taking up how much disk-space? I'm getting to the stage where my root
partition is fairly full and if I've got packages I don't really need
sitting around then I could remov
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Hello,
I don't use KDE as a desktop, because I prefer a more lightweight window
manager, but I have found that recently the KDE applications (esp. the
KOffice suite) are starting to get *really* good, and I'd like to make
better use of them.
The only p
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|> Which desktop (KDE/Gnome) suits the best based on
|>
|> 1. Performance
|>2. Efficiency
|>3. Multithreaded application handling process
|>4. Ease of use
|>5. Be
BTW, since I am a fairly new linux user i have no idea what happens
when linux crashes
When Linux *what*??
;)
Andy
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Hello,
I've been seeing something strange with the way Mozilla Mail handles
addresses and I want to see if anyone else sees it too.
I am unable to tell Mozilla to put addresses it harvests into the
'Collected Addresses' address book. Whenever I change
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Phil Barnett wrote:
|>> Anything that makes it easier to transition from the other Linux
|>> flavors where the init files are laid out very differently would
make those
|>> testing the waters feel much more welcome. If that's not anyone's
|>> goal here
Hello,
I've been having a problem trying to install KDE Office. When I tried to
emerge it it fails complaining that "libtool: link: cannot find the
library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.1/libstdc++.la'" (last
section of error output follows below)
The error is entirely correct - that
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Hello,
I've tracked down what seems to be the source of most of my problems
since the upgrade, and it seems to be that my inittab references a
runlevel that doesn't exist, namely sysinit.
According to qpkg both /etc/inittab and /etc/runlevels/boot be
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| At the end of every install/update emerge will tell you if there are any
| config files to update, *UPDATE THEM*! The tool to do so was moved into
| portage for this very reason.
|
I do update them. I'm not an idiot and I understand the reasons for
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|>(sidenote: Is the output produced on boot captured anywhere? I think
|>Redhat gives you a /var/log/boot.log.. does Gentoo have an equivalent?)
| dmesg
|
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not quite what I was after... Tha
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Hello,
I did my updates today, which I believe included baselayout and
everything seems to have gone a bit weird. The first time I rebooted I
got an error message and the boot stopped and dropped me into emergency
maintenence mode telling me to recrea
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| just for a reference,
| i also upgraded from xfree4.2.99.3 to 4.2.99.4 and kde3.1 works without
| problems... same for gnome2.2rc2
|
| my friend did an upgrade from xfree4.2 to 4.2.99.4 and his fonts got
| smaller, but it turned out that he forgot to
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