Re: [gentoo-user] Perl IDE and good tutorials?

2005-02-10 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Just use vim man seriously and use `perldoc` for help. That's all I used when I was learning perl. Oh and also the O'Reilly books - "Learning Perl" and "Objects, References and Modules" both by the same authors. On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:12:30 +, Joel Merrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gu

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtual Machine (UML) Question

2005-01-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hi, Recently I'd been looking for hosting that provided Gentoo Linux and root access. I found it in two places. http://www.linode.com/ http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ I went with the first one, linode.com, because it was cheaper. Now a linode is basically like a virtual machine running through user

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

2004-01-20 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
- Original Message - From: "Jens Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Critical warning: Do not update GLIBC! | * On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 20:38:53 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: | | > It seems odd that a few pe

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

2004-01-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.

[gentoo-user] No italics for Impact font

2003-12-07 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I cannot get italics to appear for the Impact font in mozilla or firebird. Any ideas on how to get it? It works in Opera and IE. To test whether your browser or OS supports italics in Impact try the demo page below. http://dhruba.codewordt.co.uk/italics.html Regards Dhruba -- [EMAIL PR

Re: [gentoo-user] About emerge sync...

2003-12-07 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It takes so much time to sync the tree here... because i have a slow (modem) connection. can i use portage-2003xxyy.tar.bz2 files downloaded in another place? how can i do this? just extract the file to /usr/portage...? could i overwrite a old one with a new one? thanks..

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto apply patches

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jimmie Houchin wrote: If I were to do it manually, do I need to unzip the sources to its own directory? /usr/src/my_patched_sources/2.6.0t9bk26? -- tar -xvzf kernel-sources -- bunzip2 patch-file -- put patch in kernel directory -- make mrproper (in kernel dir) -- optional -- patch -p1 < patch

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel modules

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Reno Romanin wrote: I am using 2.4.20-gaming-r3, and every time i reboot my machine, the nvidia.o module gets deleted somehow. I'm using the drivers directly from the nvidia site, not installed by portage. How do i stop this file from getting deleted? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list set /usr/s

Re: [gentoo-user] merging Apache 1.3.xx?

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I know this is an FAQ, but what's the best way to emerge the 1.3.xx series of Apache without it trying to upgrade me to 2.0.xx? emerge =apache-1* -vp emerge -i net-www/apache-2.0.48-r1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge openoffice-1.1.0-r2

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Peng Zhang wrote: Hi, When I try to emerge openoffice, the portage also want to emerge sun-jdk. I think this should not happen, since I have blackdown-jdk installed. How can I emerge openoffice without emerging sun-jdk? Thanks! pzhang root # emerge openoffice -vp These are the packages that I w

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -up world do not find all updates

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Marcin Daczkowski wrote: as in the subject. emerge -up world gives only sun-jdk packages, but when i've run dep-clean i found out that newer version of ant is needed by some program. I checked emerge search ant, that 1.5.4 is available (and i have 1.5.3 installed). Why emerge -up world do not find

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0 question

2003-11-23 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jerry McBride wrote: During kernel config, under "processor type and features" I'm offfered a selection called "generic x86 support". The help/info for that selection is awful vague to me. Can anyone clarify it's purpose and when should it be ticked off during kernel configuration? No need u

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with X locking up

2003-11-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Aaron Walker wrote: I got home from work this morning (I work nights), to find my machine locked up. This also happened the day before last. I could not switch to any of the terminals (via ctrl-alt-F1, etc). I was able to login via ssh from another pc, however. After running top, I noticed X

Re: [gentoo-user] depgraph creation failed

2003-11-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, I've just emerged sync and then I did: euler root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "sys-apps/bzip2"

Re: [gentoo-user] Devfsd database invalid entry

2003-11-07 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jan M. Dziewulski wrote: Hello, When I try to do an emerge command, The line or two before the end is: !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Now I suspect that one reason why I got this is because my computer crashed previously, and even

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc

2003-11-04 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Michel Bellemare wrote: Hi, everytime i boot my system, i got this error message modprobe: cant load module /dev/rtc modprobe: cant load module /dev/misc/rtc i've done some research and founded that this is the real time clock (wow, the name says it all :) ). So I gone thru my kernel and didnt f

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problems on kernel 2.6.0-test8

2003-11-04 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Collins Richey wrote: I have finally gotten alsa to work for my SoundBlaster PCI 64 (ens1371), but it's still a bit hokey. I've seen a few reports but no real answers on forum. Maybe someone knows the answer. Bugzilla is down, so I can't search there at present. 1. You should be able to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo binary packages

2003-11-04 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
adixor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Me and some of my colleagues were thinking on making an archive of precompiled gentoo packages, used for easy installing/reinstalling/ duplicating gentoo systems. It would contain precompiled gentoo packages that we use, with differe

[gentoo-user] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

2003-11-02 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
wish. I would be grateful if these issues were paid some attention and I look forward to receiving feedback whether you share the same experience or have opposing views. If any of them should be filed as bugs with sincere regards Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues

2003-11-02 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mojo B. Nichols wrote: !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match) our recorded digest: 1ecd31d17b51f16332b1fcc7da36b312 your file's digest: 6c3f032ddf401ca522900291de03fee5 !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 I just removed this file from S

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree dependancy - why?

2003-10-29 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:27, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > >> I get this too on a server machine. >> >> $ emerge -Duvp world >> >> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: >> >> Calculating world dependencies ...done! >> [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree dependancy - why?

2003-10-26 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> Hello. > > Today, as I did an emerge -uDp world, xfree suddenly was a dependancy > needed > to be installed. I get this too on a server machine. $ emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-

[gentoo-user] Recovering with reiserfs

2003-10-21 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
ng (2) formatting the partition? Much appreciated. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba.AT.codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 | MSN: bdhruba.AT.msn.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world update blocked by postfix

2003-10-20 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dennis Robertson wrote: My attempt to carry out a world update has stalled with postfix-2.0.16-r1 "Generating self-signed test certificate" for the past 2 hours or so. Can anyone suggest how to get past this blockage, please. TIA That should not happen. Do Ctrl-C and emerge again. -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem of crashing (2.6.x)

2003-10-20 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jason Stubbs wrote: I'm too am using ~x86 with gcc331r5 and glibc232r6 and development-sources260t7r3. I haven't had any problems with locking up (except during initial kernel initialisation on the USB). From what you've described, the problem seems to be related to the video. What card/drive

[gentoo-user] Python missing libraries -> Portage b0rked

2003-10-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
t python working again? After portage is working I shall re-emerge xfree as revdep-rebuild says I should. I urgently need assistance and would be grateful for it. With regards. Dhruba Bandopadhyay. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ?

2003-10-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
- Original Message - From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's preference, Gnome or KDE ? | | It's almost a fact that most distros lean towards either Gnome or KDE. I tried In that case, thi

[gentoo-user] Odd problem of crashing (2.6.x)

2003-10-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
every time I log out of E. Some minor configuration is corrupted every time this happens and I'm afraid of more severe data loss. Any help would be much appreciated. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba.AT.codewordt.co.uk ICQ: 31628525 | MSN: bdhruba.AT.msn.com P.S. Reply-To not set. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:53:36 +0100 (BST) > Done and done. > > I am using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ian $ glxgears > 3856 frames in 5.0 seconds = 771.200 FPS > 4194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 838.800 FPS > 4094 frames in 5.0 seconds = 818.800 FPS > 4107 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> Great minds think alike. That is the board that I bought today. > Installed without a hitch and gets 3D accel right out of the box. The Congrats ;-) > only problem that I have is that it does not see to like the frame > buffer modes from grub. I had vga=794 in my grub line, which worked fine >

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia or ATI

2003-10-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> I am looking to get a new video card for my desktop (the old Voodoo 3 is > starting to show its age). What I would like to know is which of the big > two nVidia or ATI are better supported under Linux for framebuffer stuff > and for DRI. > > Given the choice between the two, which would you choo

Re: [gentoo-user] bootsplash

2003-10-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
> I have seen in the forums a ton of info on installing bootsplash for a 2.4 > kernel, but what about for the 2.6 kernels? I don't think they need to be > patched, but can I just install bootsplash and the rest? If anyone has > experience or can help that would be great. > > Thanks > > Nick > >

Re: [gentoo-user] php & apache2

2003-10-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:39:36 +0200 mathieu perrenoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 20:27, Collins Richey wrote: I have apache2, php, and mod_php installed. /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d includes instructions to load php and enable the apropriate MIME

Re: [gentoo-user] Changelogs for emerge -up

2003-10-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Matt Neimeyer wrote: Hey all, Is there any easy way to get a changelog for the various packages presented by emerge -up? For example: emerge -up --with-change-log world It would be nice... Thanks! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If you mean incremental changes from older versions of pac

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia strikes again

2003-10-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Meka[ni] wrote: Just to be sure, I'll tel you the exact commands I've executed. emerge nvidia-kernel emerge nvidia-glx opengl-update nvidia modprobe nvidia change the section in XF86Config from "nv" to "nvidia". Should I do something else? I still get messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question

2003-10-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Ernie Schroder wrote: Thanks Andrew. Let's just suppose that down the line I want to resume using a package I have injected. Will simply emerging the package = to or > the version I injected return the package to normal status? Or, is there other magic that must be performed? Unmerge injected pa

Re: [gentoo-user] No 2.6.0-test7 ebuild yet?

2003-10-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
James Hanna Jr wrote: Hmmm No need for one. Just unpack it manually. If you must have an official ebuild file a bug and knowing the dev who deals with it he'll be only too happy to bump the version. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Why new packages for emerge -Duvp world?

2003-10-08 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello the following were my updates but why suddenly so many new packages? wolf updates: [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.57a-r1 [2.57a] [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r2 [2.2.3-r1] +readline -tcltk +berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r10 [2.0.49-r9]

[gentoo-user] Mailing list software?

2003-10-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello After my troubles with mailman I wanted to ask what other mailing list software I can use. It does not matter whether it has a web interface or not but it must be compatible with courier-imap and postfix which is what the server runs. Any suggestions and your experiences with various m

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge error

2003-10-05 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
- Original Message - From: "David Bellamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Emerge error | Can anyone tell me what I have done and how I fix this error: | | >checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc | >checking for

[gentoo-user] cs46xx sound driver missing in 2.6.0-test6?

2003-09-28 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello, I just moved to 2.6.0-test6 and was horrified to find that the cs46xx driver was not available in the options. There are some other variations but they don't work. Anyone else using a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz suggest a solution? With regards. -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhru

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Stats

2003-09-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jay Carson wrote: Anyone know whats going on with gentoo-stats. I just finished building my system and everything seems to work, but when I type: gentoo-stats --new I receive the following error Obtaining new system ID... There was an error when obtaining a new system ID (proxy?). Please try agai

Re: [gentoo-user] gpm dependency?

2003-09-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Owen Gunden wrote: Why is emerge -DUpv world trying to install gpm? Good question. It's annoying when that happens. The only explanation is that it is a dependency. Inject it if you really don't want it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge system - obsolete packages?

2003-09-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Joshua Banks wrote: Hello Dhruba, Can you give a specific example please, from the command line? Actually, I'm just talking about the command syntax that I would use if I were to use your suggestion of: ebuild /path/to/ebuild postinst Can you give me a real world example of the above please so

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge system - obsolete packages?

2003-09-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
essage again by doing: ebuild /path/to/ebuild postinst -- Dhruba Bandopadhyay | dhruba[AT]codewordt.co.uk | ICQ: 31628525 Dev-sources-test4-bk6 | XFree-4.3.0-r3 | Nvidia-1.0.4496 | E-0.16.6-pre7 | ~x86 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Georgia Tech (ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu) KDE mirror is corrupted

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! I just was trying to emerge kde 3.1.3 and every time it wants to download a package from the Georgia Tech's mirror emerge stops due to bad md5. After some investigating I found out that many (or all) bz2 files in ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.1.

Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
keanu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This gives 402 packages. Surely that can't be right for number of packages in the category 'system'. i don't know what file it is in but you can do emerge -pve --nodeps system | grep ebuild | wc -l which gives 68 for me Thanks. I simp

Re: [gentoo-user] Using emerge -B question

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jeff Greene wrote: I just built mozilla-1.4-r3 (whatever the latest one is) lat night using the emerge -B option. I woke up this morning to find out that everything went ok, but now what do I do? Basically, I want to save what I just built in a safe place so I can emerge it when I see fit, prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Joshua Banks wrote: You can use one of the tools in the Gentootoolkit to query Gentoo for a list of packages. qpkg -q This will list everything I believe. Not sure if this helps since your referencing a difference between Bash and Python That doesn't make sense. qpkg -q gives packages depen

Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Patrick wrote: Hi, epm would be usefull in this context emerge search epm epm -q -a This gives 402 packages. Surely that can't be right for number of packages in the category 'system'. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "at" command

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
John wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Canek [iso-8859-1] Peláez Valdés wrote: emerge sys-apps/at Thanks...I am not sure how I missed that... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list emerge -s ^at$ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] 1400x1050 vga= mode framebuffer

2003-09-09 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Anyone know the vga= mode for 1400x1050 resolution? I require this for my laptop which looks blurred on any other non-native framebuffer resolution. With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?

2003-09-08 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello How can I count the number of packages in 'system' rather than 'world' using, say, bash? Where is this information stored? I've found where this is determined in emerge using python but I need to do this in bash. Much appreciated. With regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman 2.1.2-r1 error

2003-09-07 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Dhruba Bandopadhyay -- What $MAILGID is mailman supposed to have? The ebuild sets it to 280 but postfix is 207 and apache is 81. Any help would be much appreciated. Mailman has been a source of considerable grief for me. Did you try

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgraded from 2.4.20r5 to r6 ???'s...

2003-09-07 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Joshua Banks wrote: I show a kernel-2.4 and a kenrel-2.5 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/ This is what you should have. $ ls /etc/modules.autoload.d/ kernel-2.4 kernel-2.5 kernel-2.6 If I do a "uname -a", it shows that I'm still running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. Did I do the right thing after upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile of gentoo-sources 2.4.20 r6

2003-09-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Rick Sivernell wrote: question is do I need to send this to the gentoo developers or what? The person in charge of this issue is [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK. Assign a bug to him or email him I guess. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing world file

2003-09-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi! Can I safely edit the world file to, for example, remove packages from there? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Yes. You can also add packages and use operators like =, >, < and package versions like net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world and portahe out of sync again

2003-09-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Kenworthy wrote: My portage has corrupted itself again: rattus root # wc /var/cache/edb/world 616 616 11632 /var/cache/edb/world rattus root # emerge -vp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies *** Package in world file is not

[gentoo-user] Opengl-update on server machine?

2003-09-06 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello Having done a `qpkg -I -nc` recently out of curiosity I found this entry. x11-base/opengl-update What is opengl-update doing on a server machine that does not even have X or nvidia packages? $ etcat -d `which opengl-update` [ Results for search key : /usr/sbin/opengl-update ] $ qpkg -q o

[gentoo-user] Mailman 2.1.2-r1 error

2003-08-28 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello When I post an email to my mailman list I get the error below. Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail ser

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge option for dependencies?

2003-08-27 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking through man emerge but not finding an option to let me determine which packages on my system would be effected by removing a package that is currently installed. emerge -Cp gnupg says it would just uninstall that package. Can I be sure that no other packages wi

[gentoo-user] Postfix solution to Sobig viruses (*.pif) etc

2003-08-27 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello If you want an inclusive solution for rejecting Sobig attached emails. Follow the link below. I found it very useful and thought I would share it. Apparently, this takes the load off anti-virus etc. http://sbserv.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/postfix_sobigf.shtml HTH. Dhruba. --

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2003-08-27 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Ben Anderson wrote: Hi, I am(actually was) running apache, php, and mysql. Recently I updated my system and now I can't start apache. I was instructed to use revdep-rebuild. I emerged gentoolkit and ran revdep-rebuild. It eventually freezes after an hour or so of compiling. I've retried it

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 oddities

2003-08-22 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Ulrich Plate wrote: True. But even though I've added metalog to my boot runlevel, it still doesn't get a chance to record the earlier errors (like st, ide_tape, ide_probe_mod and I don't know what else). My biggest problem is to separate the "real" errors from the ones triggered by that stupid de

Re: [gentoo-user] update script

2003-08-22 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
blade- wrote: Has anyone made a script that will, emerge sync, emerge -UDp world outputs the results to email? I am not to good at shell scripting, I have been trying to base it off a script I have that updates the root hints and email the results but I am not getting any where. I want it to be

Re: [gentoo-user] apache 1.3.28

2003-08-22 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Greg Donald wrote: If I have USE="-apache2 apache" in make.conf, shouldn't that allow me to install Apache 1.3.28? I found that on the Gentoo forum, and tried it but.. emerge =apache-1.3.28 -vp emerge --inject net-www/apache-2.0.47 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] auto Emerge world

2003-08-22 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jeffrey Smelser wrote: I am just trying to figure out how you guys just do emerge world's all the time without breaking anything. Steps to a safe system. Do allow a script to: (1) Sync (2) Do pretend updates (3) Fetch updates (4) Email root with pretend updates (5) Log emerge activity Do NOT allo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?

2003-08-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Simon Mushi wrote: Hi Dhruba, Thanks for the responseumm the output of "emerge info" was as follows Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) There was an update to portage today to Portage 2.0.49_pre18. Try that update and do an emerge sync after the update. And just t

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen

2003-08-19 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Larry Augschöll wrote: Yeah, I have seen the splash screens on the game CDs before. The new live cd is the same thing, but with a (in my opinion) better image. It looks really slick! I want it now ;-)! This sounds like a workaround: http://www.aichler.net/gentoo/bootsplash/ The work found on t

Re: [gentoo-user] portage issues ..is it my fault?

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Simon Mushi wrote: Hi once again, I am having a problem wit the portage system ..after I do an emerge rsync Nasty errors. Paste the output of 'emerge info'. Also, update portage if you are not running the latest version and if you are you could try re-emerging it after a sync. Just some thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo poll #4 results

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mark Knecht wrote: Votes Percent Reason 47 82% Install from stage 1 1 2% Install from stage 2 916% Install from stage 3 Wow! I'm totally surprised! Do most people really do a stage 1 install? I still haven't done one yet. (Chicken) Can someone fill me in o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 1.4 Basic-Installation CD really buggy (20030806)

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Thorsten Kampe wrote: Sorry, what happened? RC4 was perfect... It's difficult to say what happened exactly but each live cd release version is different and every installation experience is different. If you are having problems file bugs and you will get official feedback on your problems. Alt

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jon Ellis wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 13:55, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Silent mode does not work at the moment. It isn't supported by the Gentoo init scripts yet but they are working on incorporating it. Look at [1] and add yourself as CC. Thanks for the response. It's too bad

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-source 2.4.20-r6

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Chris Bare wrote: I just did an emerge -u --deep world. It did not list the gentoo-source as a package it would upgrade, but I happened to look at the messages streaming by and saw that it was installing 2.4.20-r6. That is very odd. Run 'regenworld' and 'emerge regen'. Read below. I was kind-of

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD Bootscreen

2003-08-18 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jon Ellis wrote: Thank you for the replies! I have followed the instructions here, but I haven't had any luck. I do have the frame buffer images working, but it won't work in silent mode. Silent mode does not work at the moment. It isn't supported by the Gentoo init scripts yet but they are wo

Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?

2003-08-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Jason Stubbs wrote: Recompiled, rebooted and running fine. I'm about to add a comment to your bug report as soon as my password arrives. I can't imagine ACPI being bad on machines without HT or APIC since it's been in the 2.5 series for a long time and even backported to the 2.4 series. I'd say

Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?

2003-08-17 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: To add more information it seems that on a fresh config ACPI is accessible because SMP is on by default but as soon as you turn SMP off ACPI section is locked and you can't get into it anymore. This is very bad for my single processor laptop. :-( More inform

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does Mozilla stall?

2003-08-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Mark Knecht wrote: Can anyone suggest what's possibly gone wrong and what to do about it? Sometimes this happens with dormant mozilla processes residing in the background that have failed to die after a crash or hang of some sort. Try with different milestones for reasons of differing stabilit

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages

2003-08-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Matt Broughton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did this just to see what it reported on my system: Well to continue on this note:- $ regenworld $ emerge -Duep world | grep ebuild | wc -l 405 $ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world 327 So this is accurately disproportionate. C

Re: [gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?

2003-08-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but a

[gentoo-user] No ACPI in development-sources-2.6.0_beta3-r3 ?

2003-08-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello I just upgraded my development-sources to snapshot bk3 from bk1 through portage and moved my old bk1 config over. However, now I can't even get into the ACPI section under power management. I tried creating a new config without reusing the old one but at one point ACPI once again gets

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installed packages

2003-08-16 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Kenworthy wrote: What gives? rattus# emerge -e --deep world -p|wc 135 5345612 rattus# wc /var/cache/edb/world 608 608 11445 /var/cache/edb/world rattus# Ran regenworld, which added one package to the world file, but none to the emerge -e I want to make a major change

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoolkit oddity!

2003-08-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spider wrote: it means gentoolkit is being moved into a new category called "app-portage" . //Spider Well, I did an emerge sync and afterwards true enough there was only one gentoolkit. However, this is what I got at the end of the emerge sync. Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profi

[gentoo-user] Gentoolkit oddity!

2003-08-15 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
According to my machine a new package called gentoolkit is being installed when another one of same name is *already* installed. A search reveals there are two packages by the same name! Anyone else have this? # emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculatin

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: No, I don't think vesa runs upto 1400x1050. I can run the 2.6 kernel radeon framebuffer in 1280x1024, so I don't see a need for using the vesa framebuffer. Anyway, because I do a lot of text editing in framebuffer mode (emacs/vim), I switched back to 2.4.21, and ha

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel - Cannot open Eterm

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: Hello I'm running 2.6.0_beta2 kernel. In enlightenment I can open Xterms but not Eterms. If I type Eterm in Xterm I get the following error message. Well. Yet again I am in that perplexed frame of mind where my problem has been solved by the most unlikely of ac

[gentoo-user] Linux 2.6 and ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Hello My laptop ALSA sound works with Linux 2.6 but my volume levels (main,pcm,cd) are reset to zero on every boot. How can I preserve my sound levels? Do I need to emerge any alsa packages like tools, utils etc? There is no alsa currently on this system except for 2.6 kernel. Many thanks --

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse in console

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Tom Hosiawa wrote: How do I get the mouse to work in virtual console? Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list You need to enable the gpm use flag and then re-emerge the packages that use it. Also, you need to emerge gpm. Then configure it and start it. Applications like links should use it aut

Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesnt. Or sometimesshe dies..

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Leonard Bernstein wrote: *Sometimes she boots, sometimes she doesn't. Or sometimes she dies..* (1) Check hardware. It sounds like bad interaction between OS and hardware. (2) Check content of /etc/conf.d/local.start and /etc/conf.d/local.stop and remove all items in there to debug. (3) Change to

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Heschi Kreinick wrote: Your initial discussion did not relate to my bug at all. But, you ask, how do I get rid of them? That's what dep-clean is for. It's I did not ask this. usual, I think this is a documentation bug, not a portage bug. Would you really prefer that Portage waste its time and yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Start up dependencies

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having an issue with startup dependencies. Replaced metalog with syslog-ng. syslog-ng starts up fine, however everything that "needs" logger to startup fails saying it can't find metalog. Also gives this error? * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. All the startu

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Hubbs wrote: From emerge --help, I got the following: --deep (-D short option) When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces emerge to consider the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of checking only the immediate depende

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Michael Gruetzner wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I'm not sure about ICH4 but ICH is here. Main menu > Sound > Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x Also, check this one maybe. Main menu > ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL s

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spider wrote: This is the interesting variable : echo $GDK_USE_XFT 1 Set that to 0, and AA text is disabled. Its set in the /etc/env.d/50gtk2 variable for all users, or simply wrap evolution in a script, or alter your personal login sessions to disable AA //Spider One more gnome and evoluti

Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad performance

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Michael Gruetzner wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:05:39PM +0200, Arne Halenza wrote: Hi Michael, maybe your DMA mode is not activated? You can check and activate it using the "hdparm" command (check the man-page about the command, I don't know the details at the moment). I had a similar probl

Re: [gentoo-user] status of portage on os X?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Owen Gunden wrote: A couple of months back this was announced on the gentoo website (and slashdot, etc.), but I haven't heard anything about it since. Is there a project page yet? Where can I go to learn about the status of this project? Cheers, Owen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://iport

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
William Hubbs wrote: The packages were installed (they appeared as upgrades). The way I see it, an installed package can have 4 possible relationships to other packages on the system: 1) It is in the world file. (this is caught by your first command) 2) It is part of the system profile. (this

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling anti-aliasing in Evolution?

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:17:31 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello No matter how much one preaches about the merits of anti-aliasing of fonts and xft in GUI I'm afraid I just can't be convinced. I must be rid of this blurred text

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages = CLOSED

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Heschi Kreinick wrote: I would appreciate it if you went back and reread what I wrote, because I thought I addressed the problem fairly completely. -Heschi After a discussion on #gentoo with a developer I've asked for this bug to be closed which has been done. It was decided, as you may have men

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: Updating all installed packages

2003-08-14 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Erik Ordway wrote: I think that there is a significant difference between "Updating all installed packages" and "... all packages and all dependencies that need to be updated.." I may be wrong but the first says update and rebuild any thing on the system that can be updated and the second says

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