[gentoo-user] Thunderbird, clamscan, mbox-maildir

Hi all, Recently I've been messing around with clamscan on my system and checking all my files. Anyway, clamscan found some things in my thunderbird files. Thunderbird currently uses mbox format for storing emails. The clamscan info I've read says it stops at the first positive hit in an

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > My question :- > > > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? > > > > If both drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

On 9/1/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As for the ATI driver I set it up quickly today using the radeon > > driver from xorg-x11. > > After reading your message, I tried Radeon, and it seems to work. I > manually entered the frequencies for my monitor, and 1600 X 1200 works >

Re: [gentoo-user] Which drivers to use for audio and video?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:57:09PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > Hi Walter, >I'm setting up the same thing, although I used the 64-bit Gentoo > install CD. Why are you using 32-bit? I did some RTFM, and it appears that emerging 32-bit apps requires a bit of a hassle. You basically have to inst

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

On 9/1/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I first log in after a boot I get a message "I have detected apanel already running, and will now exit". I answer OK 1 time and itstops.I had this too after I botched a VNC install. I solved it by purging /tmp and all the config files in my ho

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

050902 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. >> There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . > I am also using GKrellm2, and while I didn't know it had its own sensors, > they work fine : temperature, fan, thermal, hdd, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

On Thursday 01 September 2005 21:52, Mark Shields wrote: > My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 > install disk: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml > yes, it is...but I was saying that is the message I get when, say I boot my x86_64-built box with the resc

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Philip Webb schreef: > >> Philip Webb schreef: >> >>> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't >>> show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same >>> modules are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. There is >>> a recent thread on the forum which repo

[gentoo-user] No auto-add to programs list in GNOME after emerges

Hi,   After installing gentoo and gnome on my current system, I don't get programs added to my program files after emerging them (ex: firefox-bin does not enter the menu after emerging it, I have to do it manually). Could anyone list any reasons why this could happen?

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

050901 Holly Bostick wrote: > Philip Webb schreef: >> I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't show >> sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules >> are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. >> There is a recent thread on the forum which reported

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

Alexander Skwar, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > Hello! > > Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at > the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/104415 It's fixed now. sync and update baselayout. -- Sex and drugs and UNIX. -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:51:13 +1000 Justin Kelly wrote: > Hi All, > > Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to > difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is > there anything like the Packages CD but more :) > > Does anyone know if a 3rd party/

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

They should be adding automatically, Greg.  Mine does.On 9/1/05, Greg Shikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried out KDE and I am now using GNOME. It seems like GNOME has more of a skinning functionality although it does look a lot more bland initially.   ++ OT:   In KDE, if I emerged an app

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 install disk:  http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xmlOn 9/1/05, John Jolet < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versaOn Thursda

Re: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:51:23 -0400 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > Hi Dave -- thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand it > > all, but I understand enough to get me started and do some testing. > > One question however, when you say to build pixie manually, wh

[gentoo-user] AMD64/Gnome - I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit

Hi, I've been running Gnome for awhile on all my machines. In setting up my new AMD64 it was a natural choice for me. However I am getting a strange message: 1) When I first log in after a boot I get a message "I have detected a panel already running, and will now exit". I answer OK 1 time and

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versa On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:06, Ian K wrote: > Hi there, > When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > I get: > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format > error > > Any

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:05 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 > > > well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there that > integrates with gnome that allows you to switch network conn

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

Thanks. I'll look into this and try it. On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT) "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am results in system not running. I run a couple of 32-

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

I have tried out KDE and I am now using GNOME. It seems like GNOME has more of a skinning functionality although it does look a lot more bland initially.   ++ OT:   In KDE, if I emerged an app, it would appear in the applications menu. In GNOME, I have to add them in manually. Is there any configu

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 20:32 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > [quote] > > Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) > > > > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious >

[gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is there anything like the Packages CD but more :) Does anyone know if a 3rd party/or gentoo provides such a thing? I don't mind paying for such a CD/DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 + Stuart Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I > performed the following steps > > 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as wel

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of glibc-2.3.5-r1 fails

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:19:39 -0400 Lincoln Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc. > Does anyone else get this: > I haven't seen the problem. A few things to look at may be - - running out of diskspace.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:13:43 -0400 (EDT) "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if it's just me or is anyone else having problems. I am > running 2.6.11-r6 with no problems on a system with an Adaptec 39160 card. > I tried to go to 2.6.12-r6 and r9 but kept getting kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Bob Sanders schreef: > But it does come down to personal preferences. And I've used a lot of window > managers. > > ripped off > the wm in Win98 and put Litestep on Hey, finally, another Litestep expat! I was beginning to think I was the only one :) Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:40:08 +0800 Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Sanders wrote: > > enlightenment E16. After messing with KDE, Gnome, Openbox, fluxbox, > > flirting with XCFE and a few others, I came back to Enlightenment. > > As an XFCE user currently, I'm curious about what m

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

Have you untared your stage file already? Have you mounted all the partitions? Give us some more info so we can help you 2005/9/1, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there, > When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > I get: > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format > error > > Any i

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

Ian K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > I get: > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format > error Does the arch of the stage tarball you installed match the arch of the processor? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Peter Ruskin schreef: > On Friday 02 September 2005 00:21, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Peter, why does running this command give me the following output: >> >> emerge -v $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:>=:' ) !!! No >> command or unknown command given >>

[gentoo-user] Re: loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

I had the same problem. I did an emerge sync and emerge -uDva world. There was a new version of baselayout from the one this morning when I did an update so I installed it and everything works fine now. On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander S

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

Hi people MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from opera in X]. As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to

[gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..

Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 01:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > There is, however, an ebuild for 0.3.1 on b.g.o-- > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69396 > > which can 'legitimately' be put in one's overlay. > > HTH, > Holly well since it isnt stable yet, is there anything else out there th

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 > will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install > step? It gets *everything* -- Neil Bothwick OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah! pgpHrLnrcAPld.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

Ben Blount schreef: > MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run > grub-install just to be sure. > > You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use > cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ > (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) > > Ben Blount >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote: > MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run > grub-install just to be sure. > > You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use > cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain p

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Peter Ruskin schreef: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Andrew MacKenzie wrote: >> I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... >> >> I was just thinking that it would be really nice if after I run >> "genkernel" I got a list of packages that need to be recompiled >> against the new kernel (i.e. n

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

Alexander Skwar schreef: > José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: > >> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: >> >>> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage >> >> What is networkmanager ? url ? > > > Dunno what it is, but it seems to be >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > My question :- > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? > > If both drives are the same size > > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 will that

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > My question :- > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? If both drives are the same size dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 -- Neil Bothwick "I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entr

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 SIOCSIFADDR: File exi

[gentoo-user] (AMD64) wrong soundcard is becoming default - Gnome unhappy

Hi, In my previous Athlon XP I was using two sound cards - an AP2496 and an RME HDSP 9652. I had /etc/modules.d/alsa set up so that the AP2496 was the default card and the HDSP wa used only when I specifically called it. On my new AMD64 machine I wanted to do much the same thing except I'm u

[gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

Hello! Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start * Starting lo * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 SIOCSIFADDR: File exists SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address SIOCS

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández schrieb: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: >> I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage > What is networkmanager ? url ? Dunno what it is, but it seems to be .

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

> What is networkmanager ? url ? knetworkconf.sf.net? Will be part of KDE 3.5. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Stuart Howard wrote: My question :- I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? I created a set of similar partitions on new hda with same filesystems then attempted a cp which indeed copied the data but machine refused to boot, sensed t

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager

On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:53, Nick Smith wrote: > I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage What is networkmanager ? url ? -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question

Hi Long story short - power outage damages hard drive - under liveCD data can still be read [phew] - comp will not boot from damaged hdd - man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS - installed new hdd | /dev/hda - old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 = /swap, hdb3

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:48:50 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Or... since you know (sometimes) which of such packages need to be > re-emerged, and you also know when you have upgraded your kernel, you > *could* just write a (one line) script to re-emerge the relevant > packages, throw it in /usr/sbin

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

Hy Nick, I uploaded a new version 1.0.4 yesterday. Maybe it would be best if you monitor the page of this game on sourceforge. Than I can easily send you a notice everytime I upload a new version. I am working a lot for the game right now. And so there will be a lot of new versions in the near f

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager

I cant seem to find networkmanager anywhere in portage, i have checked the gentoo-portage site, done numerous searched with emerge and cant seem to locate it, there website says gentoo has it "Your favorite Linux distribution probably already has packages for NetworkManager. Fedora Core, Debian, an

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Andrew MacKenzie schreef: > +++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM > +0200]: > >> If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would >> imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded >> the kernel. > > I don't mean to thread-hijack, b

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

+++ Holly Bostick [gentoo-user] [Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:03:47PM +0200]: > If lm_sensors the package compiles against the kernel, as I would > imagine it must, it would need to be re-emerged when you upgraded the > kernel. I don't mean to thread-hijack, but... I was just thinking that it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:24, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > hi there, > > this isn't really linux, but anyway > i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with > clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE > devices found, and as i writ

[gentoo-user] emerge (?) broke thunderbird opening links in firefox

Hi, I think it was that anyway - I certainly haven't played with the config of either for a long time. I get nothing when I run thunderbird from the cl either... I searched for a preference somewhere but couldn't find anything. Any ideas? Cheers Antoin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] TV Programs problem (was Pinnacle MediaCenter 300i)

Hello! I prefer to open a new thread because the card works... I can say that I solve the problem (I tried to modprobe the module saa7134_dvb e the analog and the digital devices were created). The real problem is a program configuration problem: I done a scan with tvtime without problem, I can s

Re: [gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

On Thursday 01 September 2005 12:24, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > hi there, > > this isn't really linux, but anyway > i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with > clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE > devices found, and as i wri

[gentoo-user] PC hardware failure

hi there, this isn't really linux, but anyway i have one old Celeron 850 box and during overnight full system scan with clamav, something gone wrong. now the state is that turning power on no IDE devices found, and as i write, i think memory isn't detected also. what these problems relies to? w

Re: [gentoo-user] WEP woes

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:52 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > any help or a config file would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks > > Nick > no one has anything? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

Philip Webb schreef: > I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't show > sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules > are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. > > There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing > ACPI from the k

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:35 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: > I want to create a crontab for my account using "crontab -e". However > system tells me I have no permission to run crontab. I checked the > "Gentoo Linux Cron Guide"_ and find that I must add my account to the > cron group to use crontab.

[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12-r9 : sensors don't work

I've installed kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 & find Gkrellm doesn't show sensors. There's no problem with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 . The same modules are being installed & removed at each (re)boot. There is a recent thread on the forum which reported that removing ACPI from the kernel config options solved the p

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:25:52 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Why is portage failing to create a lock? (Answer: Because >> it's not allow - "Permission denied". Q: Why is the permission >> not granted? What to do, to grant the permission?) > > Maybe this will give a clu

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

IceWM (with ROXFiler if you want Desktop icons, etc) lightening fast, easy to configure -- Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

I tried 2.6.12-r9 which was released a short time ago. I'm in the process of trying the old driver. > > From: Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 02:05:46 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems? > > -- gent

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

I was afraid of that . There is a bug with rmmod causing crashing in Bugzilla. What puzzles me is these two systems have never had any problem at all - I even did a make oldconfig with the 2.6.11 .config so they would be the same. > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:30:18 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > > Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job > > > > $ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs #!/bin/bash > > > > for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do gzip -f $f > > 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to gzip $f" done > >

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

Uwe Thiem wrote: On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe You just h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:25:52 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Why is portage failing to create a lock? (Answer: Because > it's not allow - "Permission denied". Q: Why is the permission > not granted? What to do, to grant the permission?) Maybe this will give a clue? # ls -ld /mnt/portage/distfile

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! -Jason On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, W.Kenworthy wrote: bunyip ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.30.4.1 2005/02/10 01:11:52 vapier Exp $ # UNICODE specifies

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > >> If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an >> emerge, goto /etc/make.conf & set (dirname to taste) >> >> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs >> >> which will add 2 new files to that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can't create lock in NFS exported distfiles directory

Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:55:36 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> As you can see, emerge (/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py) failed >> to create a lock file - or rather failed to lock the file. > > Add distlocks to FEATURES in make.conf I already had distlocks in the F

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

Neil Bothwick schreef: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > > >> I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then >> switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some >> idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

On 9/1/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I was just hoping to start a "pub"-style conversation on > what people like/disklike in a window manager. Xfce4 is really great in my opinion. KDE is just ... too much. I see all tons of icons/apps that I never use and get discouraged.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > > You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands > that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The > command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`. > -Mi

RE: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

> Hi Dave -- thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand it all, > but I understand enough to get me started and do some testing. One > question however, when you say to build pixie manually, what do you mean > by building it manually? Is that different from > > emerge pixie Yeah. Bas

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

Nagatoro schreef: > > [Way off topic] > But where did you find AA? I've looked around and all I've seen is > "sorry tray again later when we've upgraded the linux code" > Portage? eix america * games-fps/americas-army Available versions: 230 Installed: none Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

Am 01.09.2005 09:41 schrieb Stefan Frank: > I just did a emerge -u dhcp and I was able to do /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > without problems. Try to clear the cache of dhcpcd under /var/lib/dhcpc (?) > and to start it again. Thanks for that suggestion, I will try later. > Maybe you should con

Re: [gentoo-user] Pixie does not run.

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:15:33 -0400 "Dave Nebinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > > pixie: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libdpstk.so.0: undefined > > symbol: DPSDefaultErrorProc > > A google search for libdpstk indicates that this is a core library for > x11 with some references to it bei

[gentoo-user] Emerge of glibc-2.3.5-r1 fails

Hi, I consistently get an ACCESS DENIGHED error will trying to emerge glibc.  Does anyone else get this: make[2]: Entering directory `/scratch/i686/portage.tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r1/work/glibc-2.3.5/timezone' /bin/install -c /build/portage.tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.5-r1/work/build-default-i686-pc-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

> > what window manager do you use, and why? I stick with KDE, got on it since kde 3.0. and still using it 'cause just i am confortable with it, and looks pretty. Also got installed" Gnome - to run gnope apps Xcfs - for emergency e 17 - just for eye, and actualy this works even if xorg goes bad

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

Here's mine...not much in it. On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:16, Jason W Elliot wrote: > I accidentally removed my rc.conf file (don't ask). I'm not sure how to > write a new one. Is there a good set of defaults to start with? Is there > an easy way to recover the old one, or generate a new on

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: > >>You shouldnt have restarted. >> >>mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql >>daemons is normal and ok. >> [snip] > > > I ran /etc/init.d/mysql stop and it stopped without error -

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: > NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves a

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an > emerge, goto /etc/make.conf & set (dirname to taste) > > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs > > which will add 2 new files to that dir for each emerge you do. > > NB

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

050831 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > How can I find out the last few things I emerged? It's all in /var/log/emerge.log , which just keeps growing. If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge, goto /etc/make.conf & set (dirname to taste) PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

050831 Matt Garman wrote: > what window manager do you use, and why? I've done my own review a couple of times, when dissatisfied, so I have an idea of what each of a fair number does. I started with a very primitive KDE on an early Mandrake, read about Xfce, tried it -- version 3.18.8 -- , liked

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:35:07 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: > $ sudo gpasswd -a hongqn cron > > and run "crontab -e" again. But bash still tells me "Permission > denied". It seems the system has not recoginized I am already a cron > group member immediately. Maybe it reads a cache somewhere? If

Re: [gentoo-user] How to work with etc-updates.

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:16:55 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >2) If it's a file in /etc/initd then I update it automatically. > > This rule is still true. I am not a programmer and will never edit an > init script. For me these are 100% updated ASAP. Add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

050831 John Dangler wrote: > As in - workspace1 | workspace2 | workspace3 | workspace4 > (bottom right of the task bar in gnome desktop) > I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace > and then switch to another, those apps don't appear, > I'd like to customize what starts & is availabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge win fails -- what to do

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:37:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > A second ebuild in the latest batch failed for me. This time it's wine. > Again, I'm not sure how to report such a thing; http://bugs.gentoo.org > maybe someone could point me in the right direction. It's over there --> :) -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

bunyip ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.30.4.1 2005/02/10 01:11:52 vapier Exp $ # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console. # If you set to yes, please

Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:58:36 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I've figured out that if you open apps in one workspace, and then > switch to another, those apps don't appear, which does give me some > idea of the mechanics, but I'd like to customize what starts and what > is available in each one indiv

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19.02, Christoph Daldrup wrote: > Am 31.08.2005 18:44 schrieb Sergio Polini: > > I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. > > According to , it > isn't anymore, at least for amd64, x86 and sparc. ;

[gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

I want to create a crontab for my account using "crontab -e". However system tells me I have no permission to run crontab. I checked the "Gentoo Linux Cron Guide"_ and find that I must add my account to the cron group to use crontab. Follow the guide, I ran: $ sudo gpasswd -a hongqn cron and ru

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Norberto Bensa wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: My best guess is that you didn't emerge whichever component is responsible for this. I think it is kdebase-startkde It was emerged. Thanks, Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:45:17 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: rm -fr ~/.kde3.4 cp -a ~/.kde3.3 ~/.kde3.4 Nope. Nope what? Nope, it didn't work? nope you didn't try it? Didn't work. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE preferences

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:38:24 +0100 (WEST), Jorge Almeida wrote: When kde started the first time, the wizard showed its face and I told it to quit (didn't want to lose my preferences, of course). You didn't have any preferences, that's why the wizard s

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