Re: [gentoo-user] Root cannot open display

2005-03-01 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Roberts wrote: | When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by | su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error. | | E233: cannot open display | | I used to be able to do this, but there was a tightening of security | at

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge messages

2005-03-01 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D.Wilkening wrote: | Hi, | | is there a way to keep track of the emerge messages? If you do an "emerge | -uDvp world" you sometimes have messages like " * you have to restart | apache" or " * look at /var/cache/somewhere" or something like that. These |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing duplicated packages.

2005-02-25 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kirchner wrote: | * On Feb 25 17:37, David Harel (gentoo-user@gentoo.org) wrote: | |>What is the right way to remove duplicated packages then? | | | I guess I'm not sure what you mean. Duplicated, as in multiple versions | of a package installed

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/mounts /etc/fstab conflict?

2005-02-24 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: | Hello everyone, | | I have a fat32 partition on another drive /dev/hda5 | which is listed in /etc/fstab like this: | | /dev/hda5 /home/blissfix/fat vfat auto,user o o | | But as user I have no access, only as root. | | cat /proc/m

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken

2005-02-23 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: | Andrea Barisani wrote: | |> and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no |> time to |> discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA. |> | | Anybody have the time and knowledge to write something

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-gfx/imagemagick-6.1.8.8 failed.

2005-02-22 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mats Lidell wrote: [snip] Can someone please add a huge red colored text to the Gentoo website that explains how to solve this problem? Or please make it sticky in the forums or whatever... :) BTW: This issue and the solution were discussed in one of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission issue with both defvs and udev

2005-02-22 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tobias Geimer wrote: | Hi there, | | is anyone able to tell me why device nodes in /dev/sound/ always have | permissions 600 and group (myuser):audio instead of (as configured in | devfsd.conf or udev.conf) 660 and root:audio? When killing and | restart

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool .la problems after gcc upgrade 3.3.4 to 3.3.5

2005-02-21 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klaus Wagner wrote: | On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:24:09PM +0100, Karsten Baumgarten wrote: | |>|> |>|>No. Run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4. |>| |>| I bet you already had this discusssion, but shouldn't this be run |>| automatica

Re: [gentoo-user] CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: [snip] | Third, I want to use an IDE such as Eclipse, Anjuta or whatever. Any suggestions | on which IDE to use? Any examples or Tutorials on using the IDE with CVS? | Fogel's book nor any docs/tutorials I've found do not address the use o

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Clifton wrote: | I have a question about my make.conf for my new P4 Prescott 3.2. Before I get | too busy installing I want to set my CFLAGS to get the most out of my chip. Is | the following too much? I'm not a programmer, but this is what I got o

Re: [gentoo-user] Having problems with vixie-cron

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Kenworthy wrote: | I am having problems with vixie-cron: My laptop is usually turned off | at night and cron.daily is set to run by the gentoo default at 03.01am. | Even if I start it up at 6am and let it sit for a couple of hours, it | picks u

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 hours of emerge -e down the drain?

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: | Hi, |After looking into a problem with Evolution it appears that a few | people solved the problem doing an 'emerge -e gnome' so I decided to | give that a try. It ran for 4 hours and got to item 104 out of 260 and | then failed

Re: [gentoo-user] "--newuse" does it work?

2005-02-17 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gareth Hastings wrote: | Hello, | | Could anyone tell me if | | emerge -newuse package | | | Actually works? I've tried it after I've changed my use flags but it | didn't appear to work. The --newuse option only makes sense when it is used for the world

Re: [gentoo-user] Service 'exim' already provided by 'mta'!

2005-02-16 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: | I used to have postfix installed from my default Gentoo install. Then I | switched to Exim. However, I keep getting this after the occasional emerge. | | | |>>>Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... | | * Caching service dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't update xfce

2005-02-15 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Hatfield wrote: | I would appreciate it if someone could advise on how to resolve this: | | |>terminator root # emerge --update world |>Calculating world dependencies ...done! |> |>!!! Error: the xfce-base/xfce4-base package conflicts with another p

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious GDB Error!

2005-02-11 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: | Hi, | | I've written this simple piece of code that uses STL strings in C++ | (appears below). Now when I run GDB I get the following: | | 1. warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function. | GDB will be unable to

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-10 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kathryn wrote: | Will get the same thing about Xscreensaver with xfce4 if you try to lock | the screen without first emerging Xscreensaver (or at least I did). | Granted it is nice, lightweight, and fast. | I agree with Robert, if the wm has a lock scre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-10 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert S wrote: |> Sorry, only me again. :) |> |> Remerge libtool. That should get rid of the compile error. |> | | Nice try. Didn't work :-( | | Any other ideas?? Try one of the solutions offern here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67692 Rega

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-10 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert S wrote: |>Try XFCE4. Nice, lightweight, fast, no bloat, nice and...well, nice (I |>guess I already said that before ;). | | | Thanks for the suggestion. I was interested in playing with project utopia | amongst other things. XFCE does not have

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome woes (mainly window manager)

2005-02-10 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert S wrote: | In response to a message on this group claiming the superiority of gnome | over KDE I installed the latest gnome (emerge gnome). There seem to be | quite a large number of problems: | | When I go to Desktop prefs -> Windows, I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent chmod nvram

2005-02-09 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Jabbour wrote: | I need /dev/nvram to be chmod 666. I make the change, but it doesn't persist | through a reboot. Any advice on making the change permanent appreciated. | Using udev if that's relevant. Thanks. | As Alan pointed out you need to co

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 questions: frame buffer, dma

2005-02-09 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pat wrote: | Hi All, | | Finally I save time to finish skeleton of my Gentoo, it's nice :-) I | have questions: | 1) where I have to enable DMA access to hdd ??? (using reiserfs) If your kernel is configured properly there is no need to manually enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Have to perform complete recompile or there is a shortcut?

2005-02-09 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shaun Lipscombe wrote: | * Holly Bostick wrote: | | |>Actually, emerge does compile from where it left off in some respect; it |>does start the process from the beginning, but if the section is found |>to already be compiled, it is not recompiled; Porta

Re: [gentoo-user] traceroute graph?

2005-02-09 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hi, | | does anyone know of a script/program that | can make interconnection-graph of routes, | traced with traceroute/ping... xtraceroute (how surprising ;) ) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Co

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Programs using the sound card at the same time

2005-02-08 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Six wrote: | Hi, | | How do you allow two programs to play sound at the | same time? For instance I'm playing mp3s on Xmms, and | then I get an instant message. The sound of the | instant message won't go off until I stop playing the | mp3. If yo

Re: [gentoo-user] screen messages during emerge

2005-02-08 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: | Hello list, | | At times when using emerge I see some warnings quickly scrolling on the | monitor screen and hear some beeps from the instal of packages (python | is one example but there are others). In case of a system u

Re: [gentoo-user] Downdating?

2005-02-07 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Boom wrote: | Hello gentoo-user, | | How do I run emerge update World so that files only get updated with | newer versions instead of downdated with older versions? Create /etc/portage/package.mask and add lines like: For example: echo "> /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vitaly Ivanov wrote: | Hello all | | What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? The CHOST, in other words the target architecture for which gcc is compiling your stuff. | Can I replase pc with server or home_router? You sure can, but don't be surprised if anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-06 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Garman wrote: | Since doing my last 'emerge -vuD world' a few days ago, my system | has locked up two or three times. And it hasn't locked up while I | was using it---I step away for a while, come back, and the screen is | blank (but the monitor i

Re: [gentoo-user] can't modprobe sound driver (WAS: alsa-driver vs. built-in driver)

2005-02-05 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Good suggestion; unfortunately I've been doing this all as root. | | I decided to follow your other recommendation, and recompiled my kernel | to use the cs4236 driver as a module. This yields my driver, but when I | try to mo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge alsa-driver vs. built-in driver

2005-02-05 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> If I don't worry about this and just jump forward to alsamixer, I get: |> |> alsamixer |> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device |> |> Any tips? Try to do this as root. If it works, the permissions for the device

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge alsa-driver vs. built-in driver

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simple answer: You followed the wrong section of the guide. :) If you have built-in ALSA support, there is no need to mess around with /etc/modules.conf and stuff. The only thing you need to do is step 4. Note that the ALSA driver in the kernel is usual

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo 2004.3 What happened to Stage 2?

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | Odd, all of my gentoo installs have been stage1, and I don't think I have | had any major problems that weren't my fault [1]. I'd really be | disappointed if they did away with it. In particular, how can one change | th

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Captain FantastiK wrote: | HI | | I wanted know if this compile error would be saved by portage on a log | file? Not by default. You can enable logging by adding the following to your /etc/make.conf: PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage Regards, Karsten -B

Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Hatfield wrote: | I've had an ever-growing backlog of packages to update, all blocked | by xfce: | | |>term2 root # emerge --update world |>Calculating world dependencies ...done! |> |>!!! Error: the xfce-base/xfce4-base package conflicts with anoth

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo 2004.3 What happened to Stage 2?

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: | stage1 is so tiny it's not a waste to put on the CD. Still it tends to create broken installs and might be discarded in the near future. The best way to install Gentoo (according to several sources in the IRC/forums and m

Re: [gentoo-user] Afterstep via gdm

2005-02-04 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schafer wrote: | Hi all, | | is there a possibility to start Afterstep via gdm? | | After emerging fluxbox I could choose this as my window manager. After | emerging Afterstep nothing changes. | I've tried to put afterstep in my .xsessions and cho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling *everything* as a kernel module.

2005-02-02 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastman wrote: | The other reason is that I like the idea of a flexible kernel... IMO hotplug | is one of the coolest things to happen to linux recently | You might think of it as kind of a test to | see just how much hardware stuff I can make linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling *everything* as a kernel module.

2005-02-02 Thread Karsten Baumgarten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Eastman wrote: | I'm about to go from gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r9 to 2.6.10, but I was | wondering just what would happen if I simply went through my kernel config | and compiled absolutely *everything* that can be a module, as a module. | | In my h