[gentoo-user] Re: xmms problem playing streaming mp3

2005-04-03 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 04 April 2005 05:40, Chris Bare wrote: > I don't know when this stopped working, because I don't use the > feature that often, but I'm no longer able to play mp3 streams over > the net with xmms. When I try to play a location absolutely nothing > happens. It doesn't say connecting, I don'

[gentoo-user] Re: checking user messages from emerge

2005-04-02 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 03 April 2005 06:56, Nick Rout wrote: > look in /var/log/portage/ Only if it instructed to do so... quote from my /etc/make.conf: PORT_LOGDIR is the location where portage will store all the logs it creates from each individual merge. They are stored as YYMMDD-$PF.log in the director

[gentoo-user] Re: Listing injected files

2005-04-01 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 25 March 2005 19:08, PK wrote: > I have found thats its easier to emerge -i file/name when co,ing > across a bad package or something then waiting for an update to > portage or a new package then re emerging the lot > > is there a command that lists all injected packages? > > -- No one an

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge looking for wrong libs.

2005-03-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:19, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-rc1, Compiled #7 Sun Mar 20 08:26:19 CET 2005 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 2.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Users and errors (was: help "line 6: B: command not found" FIXED, user error in config file...)

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 12:36, Holly Bostick wrote: > I feel that there's some fundamental issue at work when I see so many > posts (not only here, on all kinds of Linux lists/forums), where the > answer, or a major clue to the answer, is in the original error > message, yet users are completely o

[gentoo-user] Re: Please start new threads

2005-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 28 March 2005 15:13, Tom Wesley wrote: > Hi, > > Recently there have been lots of people "thread hijacking" on this > list - it's one of my personal pet hates. > > Please create a *new email* for a new topic, don't just reply to one > and change the subject. > > Anyone who isn't sure why

[gentoo-user] Re: I've tied my OS in a knot

2005-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 28 March 2005 13:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > root # emerge -v -p  xorg-x11 >  These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B     ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) > [ebuild     U ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 [2.1.5-r1] -bindist > -de

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo sources

2005-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 28 March 2005 10:25, Digby Tarvin wrote: > After all, the only reason I really want to sit around and wait for a > compile and build everytime I install a new package is so that I can > be sure that the binary I am running corresponds to the source that > I have. I suggest you to read /e

[gentoo-user] Re: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables help!

2005-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 28 March 2005 09:08, John Myers wrote: > > perhaps useful, maybe not > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 47]% gcc-config -l > > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5 * > > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardened > > [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednopie > > [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-hardenednossp > > [5] i6

[gentoo-user] Re: "sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)"

2005-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:37, Robert Persson wrote: > I am getting tied in knots trying to emerge kde 3.4. > > I get the message "sys-kernel/linux-headers (is blocking > sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2)", even though "emerge -C > linux-headers" gives me a message saying that linux-headers is

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge/make failure i386 vs i686

2005-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 March 2005 20:46, Harry Putnam wrote: > But wait, I just thought... maybe it would be a good idea to kill > that and take care of the updating ... seems maybe the build of kde > will have problems otherwise. > > Do you think I should kill the kde build?  It really does take a very > lo

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge/make failure i386 vs i686

2005-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 March 2005 16:05, Harry Putnam wrote: > Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> But I noticed that the portage tree does not contain my version of > >> gcc gcc-3.3.4-r1 it jumps from 3.3.2 to 3.3.5 > >> > >> Is that signific

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge/make failure i386 vs i686

2005-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 27 March 2005 14:13, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Running genlop gcc produces: > > > > * sys-devel/gcc > > > > Wed Oct 27 17:25:47 2004 >>> sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1 > > Wed Oct 27 17:34:25 2004 >>> sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1 > > > > So does it mean the same version was installed twice? Y

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?] memtest results: need new ram?

2005-03-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 05 March 2005 13:47, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: [..] > 2) some time ago there was a project that was aimed to mark block of > ram bad, the idea is that the ram fails alwais in the same place, > marking that place as bad and denying the access to those regions > solves the problem. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: Restart X while emerging in xterm?

2005-02-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 050220 Qiangning Hong wrote: > > I have started a long-time emerging in an xterm. > > i want to restart X, but I don't want to intercept the emerging > > process. Is it possible that I suspend it > > and restart X and resume it in another

[gentoo-user] Re: many ext3 filesystem errors on SW raid5

2005-02-19 Thread Francesco Talamona
> > PS: Is it possible to convert my ext3 based raid array w/o data > > loss to ReiserFS? > > Yes. But it involves lots of copying, and disk space :) I'm surprised you didn't suggest convertfs... There was a thread about ext-reiser migration early this year (was: "convert ext3 to reiserfs"). C

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a movie using Linux

2005-02-13 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 13 February 2005 18:49, Yuval Scharf wrote: > Hello, > > Sometime Google just return to many results :-( > > I've written a graphical demonstration software and I was asked to > create a short movie describing it. The movie should be about 5 > minutes long and can be in any popular format

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot find cdroms

2005-02-12 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 12 February 2005 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But when I "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom" gentoo > complains that it cannot find /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. And as a matter of > fact it doesn't exist. > > What should I check and do? > > Vittorio mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/bin/mysql_config

2005-02-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 07 February 2005 20:27, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Please can someone that has dev-db/mysql-4.0* installed remember me > if /usr/bin/mysql_config exist ? > If the answer is yes do you remember when it was added ? > > tia > Francesco Riosa on 21 January! [20:42] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng error

2005-02-06 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 February 2005 15:21, Phil Sexton wrote: > I keep getting this error and syslog-ng isn't listed in > /var/lib/portage/world. What is the output of: "emerge -Cp syslog-ng" ? just to make sure isn't installed. Then you should delete (or move in a safe place for delayed deletion) every

[gentoo-user] Re: Launching emerge remotely via VPN

2005-02-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:22, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session > > going on after having closed the VPN session? > > nohup > > nohup bel

[gentoo-user] Re: Launching emerge remotely via VPN

2005-02-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session > going on after having closed the VPN session? nohup nohup belongs to coreutils, so it is likely already present on that box Maybe screen... (emerge -p screen && man

[gentoo-user] Re: getting X.org to work (using i810 drivers)

2005-01-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:41, Phill wrote: > Quick summary: > I'm working on converting about 30-35 win2k machines into Linux > workstations. > The machine designtated to form the model image vomits violently when > I start X. I've determined via elimination that I am in fact using > the appropr

[gentoo-user] Re: Something unclear about "MAILTO" in /etc/crontab?

2005-01-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 30 January 2005 07:49, Penghui Wang wrote: [...] > But i wonder that is it possible configure > "MAILTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"" in /etc/crontab? > Could i write a real email address instead of local users? What does happen if you remove quotes, does it work? This way: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ci

[gentoo-user] Re: bootmisc not running at boot?

2005-01-23 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 23 January 2005 13:03, Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: > Hi all, just wondering if my bootmisc in running at boot, because my > /tmp directory is full of old files and in my /var/log/messages I > can't see the "Cleaning /tmp directory" alert... > Of course I have bootmisc at boot runlevel, I gu

[gentoo-user] Re: SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 21 January 2005 02:19, Nicholas Pappas wrote: > Complete rebuild list: > [ dev-perl/BerkeleyDB-0.25 dev-perl/DBD-mysql-2.1027 > dev-perl/DBI-1.38 dev-perl/DB_File-1.807 dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1 > dev-perl/Digest-MD5-2.33 dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.07 > dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.34-r1 dev-per

[gentoo-user] Re: SpamAssassin failing after update!

2005-01-20 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:48, Nicholas Pappas wrote: > Thanks Nick. I checked out the site and ran a few of the fixes it > talks about, but they didn't seem to work. > I even want as far as to delete my entire '.spamassassin' directory > to make sure I had no out of date databases. No joy

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux friendly PDAs

2005-01-15 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 15 January 2005 16:51, Sevak Avakians wrote: > Try the Sharp Zaurus for a Linux friendly PDA. It runs Linux out of > the box. You can also put OpenZaurus on it. It would be nice to > figure out a way of putting Gentoo on it! http://www.opensistemas.com/Gentoo_for_Zaurus.715.0.html h

[gentoo-user] Re: Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two

2005-01-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:05, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:09:38 +0100, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not called for. I held off sync for about 2 weeks. Later > you talk about planning large emerges for when you can deal with &

[gentoo-user] Re: Monster emerge -- an odd thing or two

2005-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 January 2005 07:40, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked > on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the > new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be > a major pain if that didn't w

[gentoo-user] Re: Login, Schmogin

2005-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 January 2005 09:28, John Lowell wrote: > Sad to say, it's about a week later and I've still no answer to a > question I've raised here a couple times and on the forums also. I > say this in no way to complain but rather to express utter surprize, > actually. There's a lot of first clas

[gentoo-user] Re: DEPEND/RDEPEND search

2005-01-09 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 09 January 2005 01:53, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Exist a bash way to search a value (read package) inside > DEPEND/RDEPEND variables defined in the ebuilds. > If not which is the easyer way ? I'm not sure to understand what are you looking for, but maybe unclepine is the tool for y

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 15:14, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2005 14:29, Daniel G. Siegel wrote: > > i think i know, what's the problem is... > > > > do you have either Xorg or opengl-update in > > /etc/portage/packages.keywords? if so, then he

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 14:29, Daniel G. Siegel wrote: > i think i know, what's the problem is... > > do you have either Xorg or opengl-update in > /etc/portage/packages.keywords? if so, then here you have the > problem. you have to insert both or none of them... > > Greetings daniel Incorrect:

[gentoo-user] Re: XORG keybord konfiguration

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 10:03, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > The setup tool seems to remove it automatically whe upgrading from > xree4.3 to xorg-x11. Since it didn't work, I noticed this difference > and added it -- without success. > > OK, I removed the line and now I am at the same point as bef

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo using a lot of disk space

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 05:59, Alec wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >I just noticed that my Gentoo root partition has almost 28 GB > >in use. /usr/portage/distfiles is only 10% of that. The remainder > >seems awfully big. > > > >All my personal stuff is in other directories, AFAIK. > > > >Anyb

[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem Benchmarks

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did run a little benchmark earlier today without seeing > this thread. I had been suffering from Reiser3 for quite > some time and switched to Reiser4 yesterday. Reiser4 was > really nice in that it made my disk really silent. It is > p

[gentoo-user] Re: Determine how many packages are in portage

2005-01-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 07 January 2005 04:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > how does one count the # of packages supported by the current > portage? > > ls -laR | wc -l definately does not work > eupdatedb would work, since it counts down to 0. > > There's got to be another way. esync, that uses eupdatedb shows: macul

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 17:59, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > Yes, for sure I emerged even twice Ok, I assume you did "modprobe nvidia", does modprobe spit any errors? What does dmesg say? If a previous nvidia module is already loaded you should unload it first; "no screen found" has more to do wi

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with Nvidia Module

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 16:34, Chiheb Djabri wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:21 AM > Subject: Problem with Nvidia Module > > > Chiheb Djabri wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > My Nvidia modules seems not to work; af

[gentoo-user] Re: Modifying the gentoo livecd...

2005-01-05 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:10, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I was just wondering if someone knows if there's an easy way to > modify an existing gentoo livecd (install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso). > The reason I'm asking is that I've gotten bitten by > "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

[gentoo-user] Re: kmail to evolution

2003-07-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 00:39, Martin Gramatke wrote: > Sorry, I absolutely don't get the point. If evolution is not able to > handle maildir what makes the sense to create another maildir with > kmail? Please explain a bit. Yes, it's a stupid typo :-). Read it this way: an external program for c

[gentoo-user] Re: kmail to evolution

2003-07-07 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 06 July 2003 17:48, rh wrote: > Unfortunately, I have KMail setup to store mail in maildir format. > Although I have found lots of information on converting mbox to > maildir, I have found none on the reverse. Create in Kmail a new maildir: - right click on Local Folders - "New folder";

[gentoo-user] Re: VMWare host-only networking question

2003-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 28 March 2003 09:55, Martin Polley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying out VMWare to run Win2K inside Gentoo, but I cannot seem > to get host-only networking to work. > > I am running Samba (not the one installed with VMWare), and the only > time I can get the host to appear in the guest OS

[gentoo-user] Re: avifile black sheep (solved)

2003-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Thursday 27 March 2003 23:32, Sundance wrote: > I heard Francesco Talamona said: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux- > >gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lartsc > > Known issue. It's an aRts installation bug. Here's an easy >

[gentoo-user] avifile black sheep

2003-03-27 Thread Francesco Talamona
For the last weeks I can emerge everything but avifile. Always stops at the same point, these below are the last lines. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lartsc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libaviplay.la] Error 1 make

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors at boot time /var related

2003-03-26 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 19:23, Joe Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:58, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have moved /var to another partition in single user mode with cp > > -a. Now at boot time there are errors with permissions, but i can't > > find the errors in /var/l