Re: [gentoo-user] emerge uD world : gtk+-2.6.4-r1 failed!

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Bradley Serbu wrote: > Ok, looks like the no such directory at the bottom, but I included a > bunch more incase I'm missing something else... > > grep: //usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such > file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read > //usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3

Re: [gentoo-user] Americas Army

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Cumbers wrote: Americas Army within portage is trying to download from 3dgamers the 221 version of the game, which has been replaced with the 230 version. So the emerge tries to download a file that is not there, but the 230 download is. It's still in the testing branch. You can try packages from t

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the use of "etcat use"?

2005-04-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Russ Brown wrote: Excellent, good spot: especially considering that the option isn't mentioned anywhere in the man page... I also tried 'equery --help' but nothing there either. It hadn't occurred to me to just try running the command with no package argument. $ equery uses --help Display USE flags

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: How do I get my performance back? Easy: swapoff -a && swapon -a and bingo, KDE is lighting fast again. What about not using swap at all? With 1 gig RAM on your desktop machine, are you ever going to fill up your RAM entirely? If swapping on linux sucks, disable it. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] register to know certain event?

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
éæ å wrote: I hope I am not the only one who have this requirement: I am a normal Gentoo user, I wish to: 1) if there is a new version of xorg-x11 gets stable on sparc (that is, keyword masked by 'sparc') I get email notification of that; 2) if there is a new version of gnome (in my case, gnome-2.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
Walter Dnes wrote: I suggest you keep your current day job and abandon any dreams of a career as a clairvoyant. Please be kind to people getting bored of the same question asked over and over again. The bug was an incorrect gcc version check in an eclass. The following line should solve your pro

Re: [gentoo-user] help! xorg doesn't recognise my pci-express card!

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Gysin
daniel wrote: I noticed that it doesn't really give the name of the card, so maybe it doesn't know how to use it? There's no option in the kernel config to enable PCI-Express in this case -- not sure why, since there is on my other athlon-tbird machine. Is this because I'm using an athlon64? I

Re: [gentoo-user] lost dhcpcd and updatedb/locate

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Matthew Cline wrote: IIRC, locate is in the findutils package. No, it's not. $ qpkg -f $(which locate) sys-apps/slocate * Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-03-31 Thread Christoph Gysin
Juergen Fiedler wrote: If you really feel the need to cram it all onto one line, you could #CFLAGS="whatever" && CXXFLAGS=CFLAGS && emerge something without the typo and even smaller: # CFLAGS="whatever" && CXXFLAGS=$CFLAGS emerge something SCNR Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
renna wrote: the other day i recompiled the kernel, with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.11-r4. i then recompiled nvidia-kernel-1.0.7167-r1 with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" because the unmasked 1.0.6629-r1 version gave me a compilation error, and now Did you also try 6629-r5 ? I had problems with 7167-r1, but

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg doesn't start with glx

2005-03-30 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to put: Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" in the xorg.conf in the screen section if your are using composite AFAIK this is a nvidia specific driver option, an can only be used under the Device section with Driver "nvidia". Christoph -- echo mailto: NOS

Re: [gentoo-user] a closet server

2005-03-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Grant wrote: Sounds perfect for one of these: http://mythtv.org/ If you mean the XBOX, then be aware that it can only be used as a mythtv-frontend, because of the lack of fast interfaces for TV-tuners (USB1 only). I'm using freevo (without the TV functionality) on an xbox. Christoph -- echo mailt

Re: [gentoo-user] Which FEATURES do you use?

2005-03-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Philip Webb wrote: 050329 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: that's neither original nor helpful. Grant would do better to read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2 The link should be: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3 Christoph -- echo mail

Re: [gentoo-user] udev migration

2005-03-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
Covington, Chris wrote: Is this the current way to migrate to udev: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml Yes, it is. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
ing (apart from the profile in use). Try this: ls -l /etc/make.profile | sed 's/\// /g' | awk '{print $NF}' Just do: ls -l /etc/make.profile It will show your current active profile. Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joel Merrick wrote: I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) From "man start-stop-daemon": start-stop-daemon - start and stop system daemon programs I don't know apf but I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is (and how do I read) root's mail?

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
ound, not a solution... I followed your link to the forum. You have to set in /etc/login.defs: MAIL_CHECK_ENABno That did the trick. Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Building dvx4linux

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
Leiaz wrote: You can't install it, keyword -* means it doesn't work on your architecture. That may be true for this single package, but a lot of ebuilds are masked by -* just because they're too fragile builds. The whole e17 live cvs builds come to mind... Christoph Gysin

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird RSS problem

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Gysin wrote: Is this a gentoo related issue? Or is it just a broken configuration? Does it work for anybody out there? Please ignore me. Sometimes I just have to post an issue, to solve it ;-) Moved .thunderbird away, started thunderbird with default configuration and everything works

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is (and how do I read) root's mail?

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
onfused. I have the exact same issue here. Does anybody know where the $MAIL variable gets set, or how to prevent it from being set at all? Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird RSS problem

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
is it just a broken configuration? Does it work for anybody out there? I haven't found anything on bugzilla about this. Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Building dvx4linux

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
p /etc/portage # echo "media-libs/divx4linux -*" >> /etc/portage/packages.keywords # emerge media-libs/divx4linux But since this is a binary package, I'm not sure if it will work an your amd64 system. Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed &#x

Re: [gentoo-user] graphics under console?

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
graphics (simple images) under text console? Perhaps media-libs/svgalib is what your looking for: http://www.svgalib.org/ A simple picture viewer for svgalib: http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/index.html Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr &

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm help?

2005-03-02 Thread Christoph Gysin
:d2e45461:046ea228:8ef71a06 devices=/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=f97e2a87:6ae6edc0:1ba541dd:0945e9ed devices=/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc3 Christoph Gysin -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] new to gentoo

2005-02-23 Thread Christoph Gysin
Christoph Eckert wrote: How does chown work? #chown :users doesn't work. chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE... I added to wheel group, but when I su I get: name expired(something like that). The user seems not to be allowed to sudo. See /etc/sudoers for details. su != sudo Christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

2005-02-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Robert Crawford wrote: That's why I tried to unsubscribe to the list on the old ISP, twice- unsuccessfully. I'm simply asking how that can be accomplished, other than how the gentoo list page says to do it- it doesn't work for me- they keep sending list emails to my old and unsubscribed addres

Re: [gentoo-user] g-wrap info pages

2004-02-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Wazow wrote: This has continued for a couple of weeks now, but does not show after each emerge. Anybody can give any hints? Can I get rid of the warnings? That happens if the supplied documentation is broken. If you think you won't need the documentation for that package, simply remove the broken

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: For anyone having a bad day with thier servers....

2004-02-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
gabriel wrote: i'm interested to know what browser/gui you all are using for this cartoon as flash performance on my box (kde with konquror or mozilla) has always been absolutely miserable: audio out of sync, slow performance, chunky redraw etc. firefox-0.8 & netscape-flash-6.0.79 works great for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo compile times ?

2004-02-26 Thread Christoph Gysin
Collin Starkweather wrote: I emerged it on a 2.2GHz P4 earlier this week and it took longer than 4 hours. In fact, I think it took longer than my original `emerge system` based on my (purely subjective) recollection. Unfortunately I didn't keep track since I went to bed, but my SWIG is that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi="vim")

2004-02-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
Mark Knecht wrote: I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi="vim" command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? You did the right thing. start a new bash and try again. bye, christoph

[gentoo-user] unable to check root filesystem

2004-02-13 Thread Christoph Gysin
my system doesn't boot correctly. it keeps hanging because checkroot complains not being able to check the root fs. when I mount / readonly by hand: # mount | grep hda3 /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime,notail) / is mounted readwrite. # mount -o remount,ro / I mount it readonly. # mount

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA driver missing in XFree 4.3.xx (was Unknown video card on Acer Aspire 1350)

2004-02-10 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jose GonzÃlez GÃmez wrote: Could somebody from the Gento team comment on this, please? Could I have this driver compiled just including those lines in the ebuild? Has this been commented out due to some bug? from /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/ChangeLog 13 Jul 2003; Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTE

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

2004-02-10 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stephen Liu wrote: I tried; # mount -t ext2/ext3/reiserfs/xfs /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo all saying ; special device /dev/hda3 does not exist Please post the output of # fdisk -l bye, christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ispell build errors

2004-02-10 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During a rebuild everything procedure, emerge got trapped on an ispell error. Not quite sure what the problem is. Seems that either bison don't like ispell's .y files, or the other way around. Any ideas? emerge /usr/portage/app-text/ispell/ispell-3.2.06-r6 bye, christoph

Re: [gentoo-user] Really stupid emerge question....

2004-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Thomas Kirchner wrote: On Monday, February 9, 2004 7:33 pm, Thomas Kirchner wrote: emerge -p --prune kde Please also read man emerge about --prune before using. bye, christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Really stupid emerge question....

2004-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Timothy Grant wrote: Over the weekend I emerged KDE 3.2. Now I would like to unmerge KDE 3.1.5 For some reason none of the things I've tried has worked. How do I unmerge the virtual KDE3.1.5? man emerge --- snipp --- clean (-c) Cleans the system by removing packages that will not effect the

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stephen Liu wrote: I am not quite familiar with rescue on Gentoo. I shall do follows; 1) boot up the Gentoo box with the rescue diskette 2) mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo 3) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot 4) mount t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc there's a typo: mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP: Problem in rebooting after running 'emerge -u world'

2004-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
Stephen Liu wrote: Thanks for your response. I have not ran 'etc-update' in this test. You did not? So, this must be your first reboot since installing gentoo. Repeat chapter 7 from the installation guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml, chroot as described in chapter 8 a

[gentoo-user] ispell-3.2.06-r5 compilation error

2004-02-09 Thread Christoph Gysin
I tried to emerge ispell-3.2.06-r5 ... + bison -y parse.y parse.y:676.17: syntax error, unexpected "|" parse.y:706.50-51: invalid $ value parse.y:706.50-51: $3 of `option_stmt' has no declared type parse.y:712.74-75: invalid $ value parse.y:7

Re: [gentoo-user] a simple Q about kernel 2.6

2004-02-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Chris wrote: I have tried emerge -uDvp linux-headers and the like and have yet to come across kernel 2.6. Would someone mind telling this idiot whom is obviously overlooking something very simple again how to get kernel 2.6.x. for the vanilla 2.6 sources emerge development-sources for the gento

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get off of the list?

2004-02-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Rob2 wrote: I actually kept the instruction email until I changed laptops. Now I don' know how to unsubscribe. send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 and nvidia 5336

2004-02-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ian Truelsen wrote: Glad to hear it. As far as sensors is concerned, from what I have been able to find out, it will not work with the 2.6 kernel at the moment. I think that this is because the sensor modules in the 2.6 kernel have switched over to sysfs, but the sensor program has not made the swi

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

2004-02-06 Thread Christoph Gysin
Chris Graves wrote: Is there any notable improvement running the gentoo-dev-sources over the vanilla 2.6.2 (development-sources)? Just checking before I try to find out the hard way. Just check yourself: # emerge gentoo-dev-sources # tar xjf /usr/portage/distfiles/genpatches-2.6-2.17.tar.bz2 *READ

Re: [gentoo-user] help!!! mm-sources-2.6.1-r5 are gone!!!

2004-02-05 Thread Christoph Gysin
Thomas Mandl wrote: after an emerge sync (about 10 min. ago) I could only find mm-sources-2.6.2_rc1-r2, rc1-r3 and rc2-r1. any ideas? check out the Changelog in /usr/portage/sys-kernel/mm-sources/ --- snipp --- *mm-sources-2.6.2_rc2-r1 (28 Jan 2004) 28 Jan 2004; Brian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 emerge: broke emerge

2004-02-05 Thread Christoph Gysin
Kurt Guenther wrote: tumbleweed root # emerge /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory tumbleweed root # I just emerged gcc-3.3.2-r6 and got the same error. Is there a way to fix emerge? run ldconfig bye, chr

Re: [gentoo-user] directing program output

2004-01-28 Thread Christoph Gysin
gabriel wrote: when i run a program like "ls" the output is to STDOUT so i can pipe it or redirect it through something like sed or grep. but cvs doesn't do that. if i run "cvs update > /dev/null" or "cvs update | sed -e 's//yyy/'" it still prints the same thing it always does. how do i captu

Re: [gentoo-user] counter strike

2004-01-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
raptor wrote: when I start the cstrike server I get this into into the logs : ... Please post the output of: # cat /proc/cpuinfo maybe we can help you then... christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched?

2004-01-15 Thread Christoph Gysin
Greg Bolshaw wrote: Nessus *does* check the version string, but only to provide it for your information. It will try to exploit all known bugs in sshd. In my opinion, this is the only way to be certain you're not vulnerable. Search for "ssh" at http://cgi.nessus.org/plugins/search.html to see a lis