For distfiles, I do similar to the following:
# mv /usr/portage/distfiles /usr/portage/distfiles.old
# mkdir -p /etc/portage
# echo local /usr/portage/distfiles.old /etc/portage/mirrors
# emerge -ef world
# rm /etc/portage/mirrors
# rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles.old
I think my mind
Looks like you setup a local mirror with your tarballs in it then emerge
-ef (where -e means reinstall everything in world and their dependencies
and -f means just fetch the tarballs), and then you remove the local
repository and the old tarballs directory (since you've just fetched
So distcc sounds perfect for my situation! I've got three computers,
counting the new one, connected to each other via a 10 Mbps switch.
One's my Windows box (P4C 3.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB swap). The
Windows box has to stay in Windows XP (SP2) to give all computers
Internet access (the
There was a tiny liveCD called distcc-knoppix. The iso was ~50MB. It booted up
and started distccd immediatly. Google for it, though there may be
issues with gcc version.
The last time I checked the distcc-knoppix website, the project's
maintainer stated that there might be problems using it
On Apr 1, 2005 3:15 AM, Frank Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
if I remember right the ``-n 1'' means, that top should do one snapshot
and exit. Due to my experiences, the first snapshots are liars, thus
this solution donesn't deliver much useable results. For machines where
this is
I tried to run the following command as a daily cron job:
# top -b -n 1 | mail email address
However, all I get is a blank email. When I run this command manually,
I get what I expected. Is there any reason why top would not work from
cron?
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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IIRC, dhcpcd used to be part of the system category, but now it is
not. So, if you want to keep it, add it to your world file.
Matt
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:49:01 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Jabbour wrote:
The descriptions for certain versions of sys-libs/db state that db is
required for RPM and MySQL, neither of which I use. I have four versions
installed. db-4.1.25_p1-r4 requires Blackdown
Not for system targets.
Really? Is there a tool to query the dependences of those?
Matt
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And I don't think just running all the scripts is enough to change
runlevels. Normally you have to work out the difference between the
old runlevel and the new, shutdown the things in the old runlevel
that weren't in the new, and only start the things in the new
runlevel that weren't in the
One thing I did like in the SuSE distro which I havn't worked out
how to reproduce on gentoo yet is the way the KDM login prompter
includes a 'Session Type' menu of window manager options. It made
it nice and easy to experiment with different environments.
My KDM does this by default. If you
You can add FEATURES=nostrip to make.conf to prevent stripping post-emerge.
For more info, read man make.conf
Matt
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:04:31 +0200, Michal Kurgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I currently develop a qt based application.
As i was debugging i saw there is problem with qt classes
Ah, but if you built the box from gentoo stage 1 or 2, you're probably going
to want to start all over again (not necessary if built from stage 3).
Likely the entire system was built using the i686 architecture and you'll
run into other problems (i.e. illegal instruction errors) as time goes
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:18:56 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and as a result has a blocker.
any ideas?
did you try emerge with the tree (-t) option?
Matt
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Is cups necessary for samba?
Try adding -cups to your USE flags. Seems simple, but USE flags
indicate optional features... IIRC, if something is absolutely
required by a package, then there won't be a USE flag for that
feature.
Matt
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You should try your emerge of OO without a desktop running. This
will reduce the the amount of memory that is used by the desktop.
If you use gdm:
rc-update del gdm default
replace gdm with whatever desktop manager you are using then reboot
and you should have a text login. Login
Are there specific steps that have to be followed when upgrading from
gcc-3.3.x to say gcc 3.4.3?
You might also want to check out the fix_libtool_files.sh script. I
ran into some problems when I upgraded to 3.4.3, and this fixed them.
Also check out:
Are the same messages seen on the screen saved
to files?
You can set the PORT_LOGDIR variable in /etc/make.conf to a directory
(such as /var/log/portage). Then, the output from each emerge is saved
to that directory.
Matt
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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.
You could use a sound daemon, such as KDE arts, esd, or ALSA's dmix
This enables portage logging to the specified location, which is
disabled by default. Portage creates two different logs per package. One
contains all the compiler/make/stuff output, the other the messages that
you want to see (which one contains the messages can be easily
determined by
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:21:47 +0200, Paul Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi When starting my dhcpd I get this
Setting ownership on dhcpd.leases [ok]
starting dhcpd [ !! ]
any ideas?
Are there any errors in the system log?
Matt
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:51:17 +0200, Paul Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where would the leases file reside?
I have no friggin clue
Maybe check man dhcp.leases? Or, you could try to search for it with:
$ find / -name dhcp.leases
Matt
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:56:02 -0500, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mal Herring ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
Hi List,
I would like to write a script that somehow gets a text only output of a
webpage - can lynx do this ?
Then grep the output for a desired string of text - then
building file list ... readlink //proc/2/task/2/exe failed: No such
You should always exclude the /proc filesystem from your backups. The
data there is generated dynamically by the kernel.
Matt
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Are there any portage achives?
Need to run samba-2.2.8 on alpha because of some bugs of samba-3.x
Had 2.2.8 working, get 3.x not working.
I seem to recall something about a Portage attic that you could
access via CVS that countained all the old ebuilds.
Matt
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Boot the LiveCD, setup the network, root password, sshd, mount the partitions
and proc (per the install guide), cd /mnt/gentoo, chroot /mnt/gentoo
/bin/bash,
env-update, source /etc/profile, and rebuild the kernel, emerge sync, emerge
coldplug,
emerge hotplug, rc-update add coldplug
# /etc/init.d/dhcpd stop
# /etc/init.d/dhcpd start
Matt
Whoops, I think that this shoudl be:
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
Matt
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Other thing I found strange: when I used startx before the error occured ''
No device detected... No screen found) on the top of the screen there was
somthing like:
Build System: Linux i686 kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r13
Current Build System: Linux i686 kernel-2.6.10-r6
The thing is when I
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I usually see this error when the nvidia modules is not loaded
correctly. Could you post the output of lsmod?
Matt
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Just a shot in the dark, but do you have AGP support compiled into the
kernel, both generally and for your specific chipset?
Matt
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the /dev/agpgart (AGP) is compiled as a module (but its not loaded on system
startup)
I don't see the AGP module in the list of loaded modules. I would make
sure that this module gets loaded along with the nvidia one. Also,
make sure to load the module for your specific AGP chipset.
Matt
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Well, the subject says it all. I've found a couple of GUIs for
controlling pure-ftpd in portage, but they all require that the server
be installed on the local machine. Is there a program to administer a
pure-ftp server located on another computer?
Matt
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I would Like to be informed if Nvidia driver is really working with
kernel-2.6.10-r6. In my case, the driver didn't worked...I receive the
error: No screen found from XServer. Before, I has kernel-2.6.9-r13 and the
same problem was there too.
I have the nvidia driver working under 2.6.10...
I get the following error during startup
putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
I couldn't find a 'putfont' program on my system or any reference to a
PIO_FONT variable.
Does anyone have any ideas where this could be coming from?
Matt
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on my system /etc/init.d/bootmisc cleans up /tmp (but not _everything_
in it, but doesn't appear to touch /var/tmp
That's my mistake; on my system, /var/lock and /var/run get cleared,
but not /var/tmp.
Matt
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If 'ccache' is one of the values in your FEATURES variable, then
deleting /var/tmp/ccache (or its contents) will wipe out the benefits of
using ccache. ccache can use a lot of space in /var/tmp/ccache (the amount
is configurable with the CCACHE_SIZE but seems to default to about 2G) so if
IE has the ability to save an entire web page as a single file,
including any images. Are there any programs for Linux that can also
do this?
Matt
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gentoo-stage root # emerge xorg-x11
Calculating dependencies ...done!
emerge (1 of 3) x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r2 to /
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make: *** [directory.o] Error 1
This was also discussed on this
I see that my /var/tmp/portage is about 500 MB, can I erase its contents
or there
is something that is important there ?
You can also set-up a script in /etc/conf.d/local.start to empty
/var/tmp/portage automatically at boot. I did this for my
space-crunched laptop.
Matt
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You can also set-up a script in /etc/conf.d/local.start to empty
/var/tmp/portage automatically at boot. I did this for my
space-crunched laptop.
For my home server, which isn't rebooted very often, I run a weekly
cron job that clears out /var/tmp/portage automatically; the script
checks to
/var/tmp should survive a reboot according to the FHS.
That is interesting. IIRC, Gentoo's init scrips automatically clean
/tmp and /var/tmp on start-up or shutdown.
Matt
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Are there any error messages in the system log?
Matt
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:20:01 +, Qian Qiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to emerge ndiswrapper 0.12, when I do a modprobe
ndiswrapper, it gives this error message. I searched the forum, and
googled around, couldn't find
So I saw that libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is part of sys-libs/lib-compat
but when I do an emerge --pretend lib-compat I get the following:
Looking at the ebuild for lib-compat, it depends upon libsdl, which
depends upon X.
Matt
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I am having a serious problem with my Gateway Solo 5150 laptop (about
5 years old). I was trying to get the screen to turn off while in the
console in order to reduce power consumption. I issued the following
commands:
# setterm -blank 10
# setterm -powerdown 20
I issued these commands from a
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