Joseph wrote:
Does anybody know of any timesheet program in portage that would allow
track employee time etc?
KArm (kde-base/kdepim)
For my own work, I keep my personal notes in an HTML format. So I wrote a
little program to parse through, looking for the h3 tags and print a
report on the
Derek Hansen wrote:
I have to admit, it had me going for just a little while...
Not me. I first saw it on /. Today, a *real* news story was the exception
on /.
For more april fools fun, Strongbad fans can check out:
http://www.homestarrunner.com
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timothy johnson wrote:
What ftp server would someone recommend to install with gentoo. just
something simple to give my users the ability to upload/download to
there home accounts
Many folks have given you good answers... so I'll give you an answer that
doesn't really answer your
Harry Putnam wrote:
different. But for now, I end up wanting to use emerge but can't
because of these massive chunks of time needed to compile things like
mozilla or kde. Not sure I understand why binaries for such things
aren't commonly used.
IMHO, use the '-bin' (binary) packages for
Ian K wrote:
I know that it was the first ebuild of the emerge process. Upon doing an
emege -p kde i get:
[ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e [0.9.7c-r1]
(thats the first ebuild.)
Just to be sure, try this:
# emerge --oneshot =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7e
Note that OpenSSL is a stable
Ian K wrote:
1. What did you put into package.keywords?
I remember using a command to place more things into the file. (I got
the command from the forums.)
Here is my complete package.keywords file.
sys-libs/db ~x86dev-libs/boost ~x86kde-base/arts ~x86
kde-base/kdebase-pam ~x86
Phil Beaudry wrote:
and the cursor blinks. and blinks. and blinks my
yearning-for-linux heart away.
Sometimes the boot sequence will make assumptions about the hardware that
create problems. When all else fails, I try to turn off support for
framebuffer, dma, apic, etc. I also turn off
Harry Putnam wrote:
On a root login and although root's shell is bash, the .bashrc file I
created is not sourced.
Is this a local config problem or a default system setting somewhere.
Far as I know, when using bash it is supposed to look for
.bash_profile/profile (in that order) and then
Colin wrote:
kernel panics with not syncing - Attempted to kill init!. When I
disconnect that drive's data cable, the LiveCD boots just fine. Too bad
I need to install Gentoo on that drive.
Not that it helps any, but good job tracing the source of the problem!
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Phil Beaudry wrote:
I have tried a full assortment of the paramaters with and without
eachother. My issues persist in the same manner as before.
You say it's a new hard drive? What's the make and model? Like Colin
suggests, will it boot with the hard drive (or controller card) unplugged?
Tom Wesley wrote:
On Wednesday 23 Mar 2005 04:25, Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:28:22 -0600
Gabriel M. Bedding wrote:
Tom Wesley wrote:
I've just installed KDE 3.4 from the monolithic ebuilds, using
USE='-arts' but
am not getting any sounds from KDE itself. Window
Nick Rout wrote:
Other applications that use ALSA / OSS directly will probably still work,
but KDE applications should have no sound if arts is not installed and
running.
I don't believe thats necessarily true. You can turn off arts in kde and
run alsa or jack, so why shouldn't you be able
Calvin Walton wrote:
This seems to be missing from the howto there, so here goes.
Resizing the filesystem only changes the filesystem size, it doesn't
change the partition size. The partition just has a spot at the end
that isn't being used by the filesystem.
What you need to do is delete
Rick Lapp wrote:
Just to clarify my diagram of what I'm trying to do.
me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gentoo_server(no X)@home
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to ssh into the server at home (which the router points to
and has no X) and then ssh into my
Rick Lapp wrote:
I've been able to forward X between workstations on my network but my
server (which my router points to) does not have X installed on it. If I
am ssh'ing through a server, does it need to have X installed for it to
forward X via ssh?
If I understand you: yes.
However,
Rick Lapp wrote:
Just to clarify my diagram of what I'm trying to do.
me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gentoo_server(no X)@home
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the CLIENT.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the SERVER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has to be visible to [EMAIL
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
Just to clarify my diagram of what I'm trying to do.
me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gentoo_server(no X)@home
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the CLIENT.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the SERVER
[snip]
Sorry to reply to my
Calvin Spealman wrote:
For most of the time my machine has been set up, I have been able to use
USB storage devices without any trouble (mostly). Recently, after a kernel
upgrade, I found that /dev/sda had gone missing. The confusing part is
What did you upgrade your kernel to?
...I want to
Nick Smith wrote:
i actually cant find the config.log file, where does it live?
cause its not in /var/log and i have no locate command this
early in the game...
In the error message that you posted, it gave you the full path to where the
config.log is located:
See `config.log' for more
Holly Bostick wrote:
clearly isn't). Is gnucash maintained? Is there any information on the
website as to whether it is or planned to be compatible with GNOME 2.8?
Yes, it is maintained.
Yes, there is info on the website.
Yes, it is planned to be camplatible with GNOME 2, but they are
Bèr Kessels wrote:
emerge gentoo-sources
This gives errors: it cannot find the packages because it looks online
Hmmm... I wonder if you're supposed to do 'emerge metadata' first. In
handbook (6.a.) it says to do 'emerge --sync' -- which you didn't do
because of nonetwork. I would guess that
Bèr Kessels wrote:
If it fails, maybe try 'emerge metadata' and then try again.
Unfortunately I gave up. I need this laptop up and running tuesday, and
gave ubuntu a chance. So I now cannot try anymore.
Fair enough! Best wishes!
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Bèr Kessels wrote:
I want to install gentoo on a laptop without network or internet
connection. I use the live CD with snapshots and all installed. I chrooted
and now want to run:
emerge gentoo-sources
This gives errors: it cannot find the packages because it looks online
emerge
On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:33 pm, Joshi Saurabh wrote:
KDE works perfectly alright. but when i try to logout the machine
completely hangs and i am left with no option other than hard reboot.
however, if i try terminating my X server with Ctrl-Alt-backspace i
get the prompt as usual.
rodrigo ahumada wrote:
El sáb, 12-02-2005 a las 17:39 -0800, Mark Knecht escribió:
Do you have any NFS or Samba mounts? Try adding _netdev to the
mount options if you do.
nop,fstab:
/dev/hda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1
What does your hardware look like? Processor? BIOS? BIOS Version?
Bèr Kessels wrote:
Remove the --usepkgonly and try it again. BUYER BEWARE: I've never done
a
stage 3, so if my advice is worthless... sorry. ;-)
you might have missed the line in my email :
# emerge gentoo-sources
This gives errors: it cannot find the packages because it looks online
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
I'm installing a Linux home server (replacement for Windows) and until
now i can read my e-mail with Squirrelmail from work, but i also will
read access my other files like my openoffice documents, pdf and txt
files. My provider blocks everything under port 1024 so
Robert S wrote:
I recently got this in my dmesg. What the dickens does it mean?? It
looks
bad. I got a funny message while running links.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ld-linux.so.2[32745]: segfault at 556c rip
Douglas James Dunn wrote:
you can never have enough memory.
*So* true...
...but I forgot why.
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David Corbin wrote:
Today, when I booted, I got one red !! from the init.d script. Now, I know
how I can try to figure out what's going, but I'd like to know the proper
Gentoo way. Is the output or errors from this script logged somewhere?
Starting the problem script by hand later worked,
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Hello. I am using my home gentoo box hosting my webpage and several
forums. Now the ISP keep dropping my line once a day, so I am thinking
of using another host.
Don't many ISP's also offer the babysitting service for your computer? That
is, take your box to the ISP's
Goran Kavrecic wrote:
I put CHOST=i386-pc-linux-gnu. This shall be the default. Correct me
if I'm wrong.
What are the default settings of make.conf?
Does anyone still has this file somewhere?
It seems like I'll have to do it again from scratch.
I don't know if that's the default. If I
Goran Kavrecic wrote:
Is there a possibility that changing CHOST=i586-pc-linux-gnu
in /etc/make.conf could cause this problem? Isn't all P2 and above
machines i686?
Didn't the handbook say *not* to do that for a GRP (stage3) install?
You are probably right...let me try
It
Stoian Ivanov wrote:
I'm looking for good replacement of mysqlcc not only because it is no
I use phpmyadmin and like it a lot. Only down-side is that you also have to
set up Apache and PHP to run it. But sometimes (like when the kids are on
your computer) the Apache/PHP things is kind of
Andreas Korinek wrote:
I understand that doing emerge --sync more than once a day is bad
behavior. I have multiple machines that share a single public IP address.
How can I configure one to do the sync, and others to reference that
once? Is there a HOWTO about this?
Sure:
Goran Kavrecic wrote:
I'm having problems with first boot in the install procedure.
It freezes (blinking status LEDs on kbd) after reading initrd.
Any idea where to look, what to search?
1. Did you do stage1, stage2, or stage3 install?
2. What CD's did you download and use?
3. If you can
Goran Kavrecic wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1130510482381c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda234773737 2096482+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda31306343417101192+ 83 Linux
Goran Kavrecic wrote:
Not true. I'm getting to the grub menu. And it also normally boots
into Win.
FYI, you can type 'C' at the grub menu and there type in the commands from
grub.conf by hand. This will sometimes save you from having to reboot to
the liveCD.
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Nick Smith wrote:
my ISP just started blocking smtp from any domain not theirs, as per a
supervisor @ comcast they are blocking all mail sent from their clients
that are running a mail server and their outgoing email address is not a
This is getting more and more common. AFAIK, msn.com and
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
I filed a bug report for this issue:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78766
FYI, bug was closed as duplicate and fixed.
# emerge --sync
Then try again.
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Michael Sullivan wrote:
You were right. The directory it was in was called qt. I never would
have thought that that would cause the compile to fail. Seems pretty
stupid to me. I renamed the directory qtStuff and it compiled and
linked just fine. Thanks!
-Michael Sullivan-
I'm guessing
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Once you find the offending line, attempt to determine what python native
libraries are being used in to link that are not in the current emerge.
Then, determine what package they are in and recompile them.
I'm having the same problem building ooo. I found the
posted mailed
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Once you find the offending line, attempt to determine what python native
libraries are being used in to link that are not in the current emerge.
Then, determine what package they are in and recompile them.
I'm
Michael Sullivan wrote:
installed. I've been giving my wife C++ lessons in our spare time, and
And she listens? Wow. I can't even get my wife to dust off her flute to
play with me... much less get her interested in computers!
I ran qmake -project to get a .pro file, then qmake again to
posted mailed
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
I couldn't recreate the bug here. The -lqt shows up in the makefile and
everything builds just fine.
Aha! I stand corrected. The problem is that your project directory is
called 'qt'. Change to something else ('qt', 'foo', 'mustard') and your
??? wrote:
several days ago, i compile the kernel without
devfs and emerge udev, everything was fine
but just when i tried to surf the internet but it seems
to have something wrong with my WLAN card,
when i wanted it up using
modprobe ipw2100
it goes wrong ,telling me symbol error or
Ian K wrote:
title=..::Gentoo Linux::..
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda2
Note that (hd0,1) == /dev/hda2
You are telling grub to look on the same partition for /boot and /. I doubt
this is actually what you have.
The line root(hd0,1) should point to the partition that has
Peng wrote:
Now that I think about it, I had trouble with all of the mirrorselect
mirrors, too...
FWIW, I only have trouble with mirrorselect on the LiveCD. On a fully
functional system, it seems to pick very good mirrors.
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Stephen More wrote:
I am trying to install from a 2004.3 Live CD:
fdisk /dev/sda
[snip]
/dev/sda1 1 32 32752 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 33 521 500736 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 5228669 8343552 83 Linux
[snip]
Wilder Gonzalez Diaz wrote:
I have running GENTOO with a bootsplash screen.. but I don't want that
my console have an splash.. how can I remove it?
Maybe try:
# rc-update del splash default
(OR)
# rc-update del bootsplash default
...whichever you are using... and whichever run-level they
Vittorio wrote:
Now it happens that while if I insert in the pcmcia slot a wireless card
it works, inserting a serial card it declares that cannot find the
serial_cs.o module, which is true! In what package is that module
included? Thanks
To answer your question: linux.
FIRST:
See if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying valiantly to set up wireless. I'm at the point now where I get
the following:
It looks like you're trying to set up wireless with WEP. *If* you have the
option... maybe set up wireless *without* WEP. Add the WEP later. (That
means your router has to turn off
Sascha Lucas wrote:
Hi Boyd,
$ su -
# fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4
thanks a lot. now it works fine.
I had the exact same problem. This fixed it for me also.
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Bill Six wrote:
I recently ran emerge --update world. After doing
so, I ran etc-update to update the config files, and
used the -3 options to automerge.
Don't do that. It doesn't intelligently pick and choose which bits of code
to merge into your /etc files. Oh no. Two words: CLOBBER.
Matthew Cline wrote:
# setterm -blank 10
# setterm -powerdown 20
Rummaging through man setterm, you might try to ssh into a session like
before and try:
# setterm -powersave off
I don't understand how any changes to the screen could survive during
a hard power cycle, let alone how a
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