Re: [gentoo-user] think i killed my gentoo box

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wed, April 6, 2005 7:07 am, Bastian Balthazar Bux said: James Hiscock wrote: you can try: #mount -oremount,ro / ummm... shouldn't that be rw, not ro? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list yes :P I don't think that (by itself) is going to help anything. The OP umerged sysvinit. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual-boot Windows with Gentoo? (say it ain't so)

2005-04-06 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 19:12, A. Khattri wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. No. NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware. No. Windows 98 uses

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM configuration...

2005-04-05 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 07:20, Digby Tarvin wrote: Now on my old SuSE KDM, underneath the Password line is heading Session Type with a drop down menu which in its passive state shows the window manager that will be used by default once you enter your user name. On the bottom line are four

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives

2005-04-04 Thread John Myers
On Mon, April 4, 2005 12:09 am, Christoph Gysin said: $ fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.3 awww, you spoiled it. -- electronerd -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-03 Thread John Lowell
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:10, John Lowell wrote: # For setting the default gateway # gateway=192.168.1.1 On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:34, Mike Williams wrote: # For setting the default gateway # #gateway=eth0/192.168.0.1 #gateway=eth0/192.168.128.1 ie. You need

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-3.4.0 has lost New session

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:49, Peter Ruskin wrote: After upgrading to 3.4.0 I miss the Start New Session from the K That's because it's in a different place. look in K-Switch User-Start New Session. It's enabled by default now. pgpBCXJ7NSoah.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've noticed that every time I run revdep-rebuild, it rebuilds opera. Please check the archives of this list. There is a big thread on this problem starting on 2005-02-20 pgpdD1nShN3XW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Going to X.org

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 03 April 2005 03:25, Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:24, Sami Samhuri wrote: You will most likely have problems with transparency since it is still a new extension and is _not_ stable, yet. You may experience lock ups, but the worst effects for me are mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild always rebuilds opera; fixpackages doesn't

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 03 April 2005 17:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Funny you should mention that. My archives show that on 2005-02-20, it was me thatI posted about this problem and got exactly 0 responses. That's my archive on gmail -- maybe I missed a bunch of traffic. I'll look for the official

Re: [gentoo-user] Please search mailing list archives (was: Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2)

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 03 April 2005 19:28, Walter Dnes wrote: grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory Obviously, you have not done even the bare minimum of trying to help yourself. This has been discussed so many times on this list, I can't even keep track.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build media-libs/flac-1.1.0-r2

2005-04-03 Thread John Myers
(in reference to my previous message) In fact, this has been discussed several times since you became active on this list... pgp6o0pASaGhF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: yeah for god's sake ifconfig and route -n -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick, Kashani and the everyone else, Sorry for the delay in replying. A business emergency has caused it. I'll write later today. Thanks for your

Re: [gentoo-user] MADWIFI driver...

2005-04-02 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:21, Steve wrote: Noting that the first error is generated by the wlan module, following a session with Google I suspected that my kernel needed wireless network support... I used menuconfig and made these selections: -- [*] Wan interfaces support Comtrol

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping things clean

2005-04-02 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:48, James wrote: should I delete them 'manually'? Yes. Tarballs are in /usr/portage/distfiles, build areas are in /var/tmp/portage. Delete the stuff in /var/tmp/portage as you wish, but be aware that many times, a minor (-rX) update to a package will use the same

[gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Mike Williams wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 22:26, John Lowell wrote: and *route -n *... Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-02 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:08 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 16:26 -0500, John Lowell wrote: Nick, Kashani, jstubbs and others, OK, *ifconfig *... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:DC:B8:4E inet addr

Re: [gentoo-user] Error trying to get nvidia-glx for AMD64

2005-04-02 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 02 April 2005 17:12, Michael Haan wrote: I'm getting the following: tibeaux root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -p nvidia-glx These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia (is blocking

[gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my router successfully but, attempting to reach the web, get unknown host errors. The setup here

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Neil, Terribly sorry, Neil. I'll make absolutely sure next time to check with you first before reinstalling, I promise. jlowell - Original Message - From: Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:43 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 03:03 -0800, John Lowell wrote: I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my router successfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 20:03, John Lowell wrote: I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my router successfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 01 April 2005 13:03, John Lowell wrote: I just completed a stage1 install from the minimal 2005.0 livecd on a box that will be used as a web server. I boot without incident, run ifconfig and get a perfectly suitable response, can ping my router successfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost!

2005-04-01 Thread John Lowell
- Original Message - From: Kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 7:58 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Host, Schmost! John Lowell wrote: Thanks for writing. Broadcast with 0 is default in /etc/conf.d/net. I've tried it both ways

Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-04-01 Thread John Shawger
On Apr 1, 2005 1:15 AM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried looking into the company you work for? lol. I am a student. That's why I don't have much money to spend. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild always emerges the same package

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:49, Grant wrote: | | I always get the same thing from revdep-rebuild, no matter how | | many times it emerges blackdown-jdk: | | This is one of the many reasons you shouldn't use binary packages. | | I didn't think I was. I don't think I've ever used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge want to install two version of apache

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:44, Harry Putnam wrote: Taking a look I tried: emerge -v -p dev-perl/mod_perl/mod_perl-1.99.17-r1.ebuild That's not the correct syntax: try emerge -vp =dev-perl/mod_perl-1.99.17-r1 pgpz7xaYsLq9p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: truetype-fonts vs. type1-fonts

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 31 March 2005 23:04, Frank Schafer wrote: Nope, Type1 are high quality fonts from Adobe. Truetype are fonts introduced by M$. They are of lower quality. IIRC, TrueType was developed by Apple, not Microsoft. pgpOSwRXKa1Ef.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-03-31 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:35, Dave Nebinger wrote: Most folks, where work is concerned, expect to have the computer 'just work'. Your boss wants you to show up at 8 am and be productive for 8 hours, not spend time figuring out the innards (unless that, of course, is what you're paid to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: local lan web server

2005-03-30 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 06:23, Harry Putnam wrote: John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:51, A. Khattri wrote: And put your files in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ Actually, if you're going to use that location, you'll want to set the 'no-htdocs' USE-flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More on fbuffer and grub setup

2005-03-30 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 07:05, Harry Putnam wrote: (-HP its actually ext3fs.. but this is it because I have no other ext?fx partitions) It doesn't matter. AFAIK, ext2 and ext3 differ only in that ext3 has a journal. pgpJiZ2N8u7XN.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-03-30 Thread John Myers
(I'm going to assume a medium to large business here, which actually seems to be where the business end of this argument has been focusing) On Wednesday 30 March 2005 12:35, Dave Nebinger wrote: Most folks, where work is concerned, expect to have the computer 'just work'. Your boss wants you

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2.1.1: Font size switching between local session and VNC session

2005-03-29 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 06:00, fire-eyes wrote: I'm using xfce4-4.2.1.1, and I sure like it. However when I use a local session, I set my fonts up the way I like them etc. When I go elsewhere, I close that session, and start up tightvnc. This calls it the same way: startxfce4. However when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-29 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 09:20, Mark Knecht wrote: from list! AUDIT: Tue Mar 29 09:07:34 2005: 25853 Xorg: client 1 rejected Hmm... Try adding the line xhost +localhost after the line export DISPLAY=$dpyname in rXs. -- electronerd pgp4dOa6pTQMX.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-29 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:39, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:00:15 -0800, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the error goes, it sounds like it's a problem with FC2's X setup. Can you see if it works *from* a Gentoo box? Also, perhaps there's something about

Re: [gentoo-user] local lan web server

2005-03-29 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:51, A. Khattri wrote: And put your files in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ Actually, if you're going to use that location, you'll want to set the 'no-htdocs' USE-flag, but only *after* emerging apache the first time. Otherwise, the next time

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

2005-03-28 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 27 March 2005 23:17, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 09:08, John Myers wrote: It seems odd to me that you have 3.4.3 emerged, but 3.3.5 is selected. Anyone else know what might be going on here? Gcc are slotted, there's nothing bad having multiple versions. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-28 Thread John Myers
On Monday 28 March 2005 16:48, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:11:38 -0800, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not clear whether the localhost:11.0 is this machine (Godzilla) or whether it's Dragonfly. I hope it's this machine and this is a matter of just letting Dragonfly have

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-27 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 27 March 2005 08:35, Mark Knecht wrote: What I actually want to do is start Gnome on the remote box and see the whole Gnome desktop on my local box's second display. I do not want to upset the locally running window manager. Any ideas on how I do that? Do you run *dm on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-27 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 27 March 2005 09:31, John Myers wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 08:35, Mark Knecht wrote: What I actually want to do is start Gnome on the remote box and see the whole Gnome desktop on my local box's second display. I do not want to upset the locally running window manager. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Local vs. remote startx/Gnome

2005-03-27 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 27 March 2005 09:31, John Myers wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 08:35, Mark Knecht wrote: What I actually want to do is start Gnome on the remote box and see the whole Gnome desktop on my local box's second display. I do not want to upset the locally running window manager. Any

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

2005-03-27 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 27 March 2005 16:07, Shaw Vrana wrote: I ran fix_libtool_files.sh on 3.4.3, but I still get the error. Any ideas? Just for fun, try fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 (rather than 3.4.3) This seems to be the most common version giving problems. Also, perhaps useful, maybe not [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1

2005-03-25 Thread John Shawger
This is what happened to me when running emerge --update --deep world: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1874: 8570 Segmentation fault env LD_LIBRARY_PATH = {D}/$(get_libdir) ${x} /dev/null !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 failed !!! Function src_install, Line 1008, Exitcode 139

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck

2005-03-04 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 21:25, A. Khattri wrote: Think about this - if the checkfs script is running then root must already be mounted. You shouldn't (can't?) fsck a mounted fs. Also if you look at the startup scripts you will see that checkroot runs BEFORE checkfs so the root file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:34, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote: Hi, I have installed gentoo with kde and the version of kde installed is 3.2.2 I want to install kdm but I can't: [snip] Under /usr/kdm I only have the 3.4 release. Why? if I have kde-3.2. installed. in 3.2, kdm is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can not install kdm

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:33, Mike Melanson wrote: Hmm, I do have it in /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdm . Now how do I make it work automatically at startup? I know for installing xdm, it was rc-update add xdm default. Substituting 'kdm' for 'xdm' did not do the trick. edit (as root)

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:00, Mike Turcotte wrote: When I tried using my Audigy 2 in linux (emu10k1), I had to configure ARTS to use only ALSA support instead of auto, and yes the mixers were muted by default, I don't know why Perhaps so you don't blow out your speakers on first boot? --

Re: [gentoo-user] How emerge keeps track of what files need to be copied?

2005-03-03 Thread John Myers
On Friday 25 February 2005 07:26, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: Hi all, After using sometime emerge, I noticed that it first compiles the programs to somedir/work temp dir and later copy contents to the real prefix / Does emerge uses that procedure to be able to keep track of what files

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 1.0.1 reload page problem

2005-03-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, March 2, 2005 8:24 am, Tim Igoe said: I just have to hit refresh an extra time and it works. Its a ploy to get more 'hits' to /. ? ;) Perhaps /. is trying to /. itself? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[SOLVED]RE: [gentoo-user] emerge php...

2005-02-27 Thread John Dangler
-shared -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap -sockets (-solid) -spell +spl -sqlite +ssl (-sybase) (-sybase-ct) -sysvipc -tidy +tiff +tokenizer -truetype -wddx +xml2 -xmlrpc -xpm +xsl +zlib so probably you want to reemerge only mod_php with: USE=gd -gd-external emerge -av mod_php John

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge...

2005-02-26 Thread John Dangler
Thanks - I didn't know that. -Original Message- From: Perral1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge... John Dangler wrote: can someone tell if the output from config and compile during emerge

[gentoo-user] emerge php...

2005-02-25 Thread John Dangler
I emerged php onto my testing box, but functions like imagecreatefrompng fail. Is this because I only have php as a client ? If so, how do I get php on gentoo as a server? OR is this because Im missing gdlib? Thanks. JD

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge php...

2005-02-25 Thread John Dangler
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php... I think its the later of the two, but what do I know. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:27:21 -0500, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged php onto my testing box, but functions like imagecreatefrompng fail. Is this because I only have php

[gentoo-user] emerge...

2005-02-25 Thread John Dangler
can someone tell if the output from config and compile during emerge are captured somewhere? I emerged gd and then re-compiled php but still have no access to the image functions. Thanks. John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge php...

2005-02-25 Thread John Dangler
showing as having been emerged, but at the end of the client, I get a message telling me that this is a client only and cannot be used on a webserver... Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL

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

2005-02-23 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09:00, Holly Bostick wrote: Reply to list? That would be a great thing, if I/Thunderbird had that. Which mail client has that? KMail does. If you press 'L' on a list message, it does reply-to-list. -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supermarket Deli Clerk and

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?

2005-02-21 Thread John Myers
On Monday 21 February 2005 10:48, Holly Bostick wrote: And if Thunderbird can do it, Mozilla probably can too. KMail, I don't know. KMail actually has a really nice feature: right-click on the message's entry in the list, then Create Filter-Filter on mailing list name-of-list, which uses the

Re: [gentoo-user] silly gentoo question: what packet gets me spell and look?

2005-02-21 Thread John Myers
On Monday 21 February 2005 21:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In may cases a user may know what command (or file) they want but don't have any idea what category or package gentoo has placed it's provider. AFAIK, there's no way to ask portage this type of question, if there is: how? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild will allways rebuild OO

2005-02-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:49, Holly Bostick wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, When I run a revdep-rebuild it will allways rebuild OO (I'm using the standard OO ebuild, not any binary version). OO.o is just weird (for want of a better word); the difficulty of compiling it, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking up... Connecting... Waiting... Transferring

2005-02-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 February 2005 10:39, Grant wrote: The time needed to lookup is probably spend running a DNS lookup , I doubt changes to your apache can affect this in any way. There is always a latency associated with the network ( especially on a non-LAN ) , so don't try to get it faster

Re: [gentoo-user] php5 mod

2005-02-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 February 2005 14:04, Paul Kain wrote: Hi all I get this error while emerging mod_php server torrents # emerge mod_php Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 2) dev-php/php-5.0.3 to / mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/portage/php-5.0.3/temp/environment': No such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] even more emerge questions

2005-02-20 Thread John Myers
On Monday 21 February 2005 08:09, George Roberts wrote: *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host and one target at a time. *** Can only configure for one host and one target

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS questions for Prescott

2005-02-18 Thread John Myers
On Friday 18 February 2005 09:06, Karsten Baumgarten wrote: Will Clifton wrote: | Also, will I be wanting to enable SMP support in my kernel? I read that | somewhere too. You definitely want SMP (see above). You also need SMT (that's the HyperThreading part) -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious lockups

2005-02-18 Thread John Patrick Coder
the most common cause of random freezing is bad capacitors on the mother board bad ones usually bulge up or leak a crystalizing liquid. If you have an MSI board made with tiwanese caps this is the problem. Don't be discouraged from trying to recap your board I have had 100% success trying just be

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

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:31, Mark Knecht wrote: I presume that the 180 packages that emerged before this one are not effected by this gcc change? Right. If they had been, they would have failed too. -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer

Re: [gentoo-user] is it possible to emerge only the docs for a package

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:51, Catalin Trifu wrote: I don't usually use docs, so i add doc to package.use but i forgot :) to add it to a package. is there a possibility to emerge only the docs from a package Nope. You'll have to re-merge the whole package. Sorry. -- t3h

Re: [gentoo-user] A query on C/C++ and GDB

2005-02-17 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 17 February 2005 18:47, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, What are the libraries/programs that need to be compiled with '+debug' so that GDB has *all* the info to step through library functions? At present GDB does not seem to have STL info. All of them. (well really just all the ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in the emerge of gpm-1.20.1

2005-02-16 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:32, Jason Cooper wrote: Dave Nebinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: My questions are : a. Why is this happening (i.e. is this a bug, or a misconfiguration on my side) b. How should I fix this ? Don't believe it's a bug, but then I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird apache2 stuff

2005-02-15 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 13:38, Grant wrote: When I try to restart apache2 I get: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Starting apache2... [ !! ] and there is nothing in the error_log. Trying to stop apache2 give me this: /etc/init.d/apache2 stop * ERROR: apache2 has not yet been

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - espersunited.com saga; IMAP and POP3 access

2005-02-15 Thread John Myers
I think it might be uw-imap. IIRC, back when I used Mandrake, the imap package was uw-imap On Tuesday 15 February 2005 18:44, Nick Rout wrote: OK thats annoying, by contrast I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux and Windows XP on the same hard disk on the same computer

2005-02-13 Thread John Myers
On Monday 07 February 2005 13:18, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:15:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:44:58 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: YMMV, I tried that, but WinXP still left an unmoveable file in the middle of the disk even after

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

2005-02-09 Thread John Myers
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:35, Vitaly Ivanov wrote: Can I replase pc with server or home_router? I think you may wany to look at /etc/conf.d/hostname -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer pgpwSNzoYToTN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] bittorent and distfiles

2005-02-07 Thread John Myers
On Monday 07 February 2005 17:32, Charles Pittman wrote: On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:39:54 +0800, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a guide to setting up portage to use bittorent to fetch distfiles? Is it worth it for an adsl (512k up/down) connection? BillK I was

Re: [gentoo-user] reboot failure

2005-02-06 Thread John Patrick Coder
startup? I have tried to set the root device from the grub prompt to (hd0,0) and then run setup and although this seems to change the root device to the harddrive upon rebooting non of the settings are saved. On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 22:27 -0800, John Patrick

[gentoo-user] hard drive names

2005-02-05 Thread John Patrick Coder
My first attempt to install did not work. It did not boot all the way up, it stoped after complaining about the root definition or somthing. My question is that in all the examples dev/hda is what is used, mine is called dev/hdb it is a one hard drive system. Will this matter? --

Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive names

2005-02-05 Thread John Patrick Coder
Ahhh yes I have not used this harddrive for months as I was waiting for parts to recap this mb I had slaved it to get my stuff now it shall be freed Thanks alot I did not know that hdb meant that it was a slave On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Andrew Gaffney wrote: John Patrick Coder wrote: My first

[gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

2005-02-05 Thread John Lowell
I'm having some difficulty getting an answer to a question I've raised here, on the forums and elsewhere regarding how a little application like gtk-theme-switch or gtk-chtheme gets the listing of fonts it offers a user when modifying gtk2 applications, balsa for example. The user is shown a

Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

2005-02-05 Thread John Lowell
Calvin Walton wrote: The font list in most modern apps (gtk2, qt3) is generated by the fontconfig utility/library - take a look at http://www.fontconfig.org/ and a google search for "fontconfig" Thank you, Calvin, for your reply. Regards. jlowell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

2005-02-05 Thread John Lowell
Nick Rout wrote: well the good thing about open source is that you can read the source and find out for yourself :-) In a less facetious mood, I'd say try running gtk-theme-switch with strace and see what files it opens something like strace -eopen -ostrace.out gtk-theme-switch then

[gentoo-user] reboot failure

2005-02-05 Thread John Patrick Coder
upon the first reboot during the install I get a primary master hard disk fail I will guess that this is from some mistake from step eight, I tried a stage three install and my etc/fstab file looked a little different than is in the manuel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gtk-theme-switch, gtk-chtheme

2005-02-04 Thread John Lowell
I would like to add some fonts to those made available by either the little package, gtk-theme-switch or its relative, gtk-chtheme. It's easy enough to download, untar and add additional themes to the mix, but how to enlarge the font selection? There are versions of fonts identifiable with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master open, and would also have a consistent PID (unlike a shell script, which, AFAIK, may not). A shell script itself has a consistent PID. However

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-02 Thread John Myers
On Wed, February 2, 2005 10:01 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:59 am, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, February 2, 2005 1:24 am, Sebastian Flothow said: Am 2. Feb 2005 um 06:35 Uhr schrieb John Myers: It would keep the connection to the master

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: It's a good idea, but you should choose a different name. there is already a script called eprogress floating around the forums. Darn. I just picked it to go along with the whole 'e-prefix' naming scheme. But I will see what I can do.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
: John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: 1) eprogress progress providers (clients?) (perhaps through some sort of libeprogressc). These are programs like emerge, make, gcc, etc. which have some sort of goal, and can report on their progress. They would need to be patched to provide

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:24, Jason Cooper wrote: John Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: A clarification: I'm not talking about time estimation here. What I'm talking about is having each provider provide a minimum of two pieces of data: the number of subtasks it will run

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-02-01 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 16:03, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [On in reply to any one message in particular, so not quoting anyone.] Probably the best way to do this is to provide a drop-in replacement for make w/ an optional patch to emerge/ebuild. Probably, but in the shorter term, a

[gentoo-user] OT: Project Idea

2005-01-31 Thread John Myers
. Please let me know what you think. -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd (John Myers) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer pgp214G7YPSyg.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Stage 1 NPTL on Stage 3 boot error (udev)

2005-01-30 Thread John Call
I just finished following Bob_P's article on forums.gentoo.org about installing Stage 1 NPTL on Stage 3. Awesome tutorial! Anyway, when I reboot I'm having some problems getting beyond the INIT scripts due to udev problems. I was however able to reconcile the problem and finish booting by

Re: [gentoo-user] Java IDE's, (problems with) executing java .classes and you

2005-01-30 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 30 January 2005 18:06, Manuel McLure wrote: Phill wrote: Any suggestions? Try eclipse - emerge the eclipse-sdk package. I'll second that! Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever seen, ever. Mind you, I've not seen a whole lot of IDEs, but of those I've seen, Eclipse rocks the house.

[gentoo-user] RE: little crusade for Gentoo to compile with InnoDB

2005-01-28 Thread John Dangler
ABSOLUTELY!!! - If nothing else, add it as a separate entry in Portage (mysql_w_innodb)... I for one, use innodb... John Dangler -Original Message- From: Arjen Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:50 AM To: community Subject: little crusade for Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where did XFS (the X Font Server) go? [WBMII]

2005-01-27 Thread John Drouhard
a USE flag option for xorg. If you recently updated xorg, then you'll need to recompile with USE=font-server selected. That'll put the x font server back on your system. Good luck John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] switching motherboards

2005-01-26 Thread John Coder
I some capacitors blew on my newer motherboard and I have an older one installed if I install gentoo will it die when I recap my newer board and put it back in? Suse did not die under these circumstances. Thanks John Coder -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Athlon 64 Mobo Recommendations

2005-01-26 Thread John Coder
Thanks John Coder -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] GAIM-Encryption

2005-01-24 Thread John Dangler
I'm running gaim 1.1 on a 2.6.10-r4 kernel. Anyone used gaim-encryption and know if it works ok? (the sourceforge site says to set USE=crypt but the portage site doesn't mention it). I'd like to know if it works ok. Thanks. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: first boot freezing...

2005-01-23 Thread John Myers
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It seems like you aren't even getting to the GRUB menu, which means this file has not relevance. He's definately getting into the kernel. The blinking keyboard LEDs mean that there has been a kernel panic. IIRC, it's actually blinking out something about the panic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: first boot freezing...

2005-01-23 Thread John Myers
John Myers wrote: IIRC, it's actually blinking out something about the panic in Morse code. After an inspection of the source, I guess that's not the case. I must have seen a patch for that somewhere or something. I remember thinking it to be quite nifty at the time. (Not that I'd ever want

RE: [gentoo-user] OT: How secure is osCommerce?

2005-01-22 Thread John Dangler
To actually try and answer the question, I'm somewhat new to OSC. The one glaring thing I find that I wasn't very excited about was the fact that out-of-the-box OSC won't work without register_globals being ON in php.ini. Of course, a .htaccess file solves this locally. However, after looking

Re: [gentoo-user] sxcreensaver and glxgears again!

2005-01-22 Thread John Myers
Collins Richey wrote: Finally, I entered 'glx-update xorg-x11' and the problem was gone. wtf! Why would I ever need to run glx-update more than once, most especially since there's only one choice these days? I don't know why you'd have to do it more than once, but there is still more than one

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