[gentoo-user] portage changelogs?

2005-10-11 Thread Graham Murray
New versions of portage 2.0.X are showing up in ~arch, but the Changelog entries only mention 2.1.0_alpha versions. Where should I look for what has changed, eg between 2.0.52* and 2.0.53_rc? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread Christoph Gysin
James Colby wrote: I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and have not had

[gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for XShmAttach in -lXext... yes checking for sys/ipc.h... yes checking for sys/shm.h... yes checking whether shmctl IPC_RMID allowes subsequent

[gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-11 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia listed in

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched sourcforge and freshmeat and

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml, I have * nvidia

[gentoo-user] Keyboard troubles and new baselayout

2005-10-11 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, After upgrading to baselayout-1.11.13-r1 i can't login to my servers direct with the keyboard. After the upgrade i have used the new /etc/rc.conf and changed the /etc/conf.d/keymaps accourding to my Belgium keyboard KEYMAP=be-latin1, and rebooted the machine ! It seems that the @ button not

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:25 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Oh, and another thought. The find command can do this for you as well, IIRC. find . -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec command {} {}.foo \; is the syntax, IIRC. Note the \ that exists to escape the semicolon, therefore telling find

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread gentoo_falstaff
On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problem after a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I had Direct Rendering switched off. I was compiling AGP as a kernel module. Actually I solved the problem compiling AGP directly in the kernel with the chipset code

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, gentoo_falstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop with a Mobility Radeon M7 on I noticed the same problemafter a kernel recompilation (2.6 series ~x86 flag); that is I hadDirect Rendering switched off.I was compiling AGP as a kernel module.Actually I solved the problem compiling

[gentoo-user] Re: conf.d/net static routes

2005-10-11 Thread Jochen Schalanda
On 10/10/2005 09:09 PM, Tim Watson wrote: Hi, I currently use a conf.d/local.start script to set my default routes: route add 10.255.255.1 dev eth0 route add default gw 10.255.255.1 I know I can set the second one using: routes_eth0=( default via 10.255.255.1 ) but I cannot work out

[gentoo-user] Re: too many kernel problems!

2005-10-11 Thread James
Petteri Räty petteri.raty at saunalahti.fi writes: Let me just point out that your CFLAGS are kind of stupid. You have -g for producing debugging information but then you have fomit-frame-pointer, which makes debugging impossible on some machines. Yes, a vestige, on a system that begs for

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread John Jolet
On Monday 10 October 2005 23:21, James Colby wrote: Hi All - I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions of a way to get to a shell over the web using only port 80 or port 443. I would like to be able to open up a shell on my gentoo box from , but I am behind a firewall. I have searched

[gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble

2005-10-11 Thread Alexey Asprov
I have finally made my usb cdr to work, however I can't burn cds This was what I made it to work: Device Drivers - SCSI device support - [*] SCSI CDROM support USB support - [*] EHCI HCD [*] USB Mass Storage support [*] Freecom USB/ATAPI Bridge support

Re: [gentoo-user] portage changelogs?

2005-10-11 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 15:10, Graham Murray wrote: New versions of portage 2.0.X are showing up in ~arch, but the Changelog entries only mention 2.1.0_alpha versions. Where should I look for what has changed, eg between 2.0.52* and 2.0.53_rc? To prevent duplication of work, the physical

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package you're missing (this error clearly indicates you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar? If you choose to roll your

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to track down what package

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Jorge Almeida schreef: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Jorge Almeida schreef: I'm trying to emerge kde-meta. It fails with imlib: checking for gif_lib.h... no configure: error: *** GIF header not found *** I don't use kde-meta, but I went to www.gentoo-portage.com to

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them recompile my kernel and leave radeon as

[gentoo-user] nfs shutdown deps

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Hübner
Hi people, this one is concerning the order of scripts during shutdown. Yesterday I forgot to umount some NFS shares on my notebook and shut down the computer. My ethernet devices eth0 and eth1 became stopped and _after_ that it tried to stop the nfsmount script. This is somewhat senseless,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight placeWHACK-A-MOLE

2005-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
You fix it here it breaks again over there :( Turns out the drive is OK(at least the file system), it was another drive on the same cable. But now grub wont work at all. Interesting, at first grub could boot xp and gentoo, then xp failed and now gentoo wont boot -- no matter how I set grub up,

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, Fernando Meira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules...

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Fernando Meira schreef: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that mean that it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are both modules... should I them

[gentoo-user] About a proxy-like idea... (was Shell through the web)

2005-10-11 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 07:37 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I'm also vaguely hopeful that there may be a more efficient lower-level solution which wouldn't require the overhead of a process to 'pass-on' the tcp data... maybe integrated with ipchains or pf or similar?

[gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Nikodemus Karlsson
Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? In the meantime, the upgrade flags for install

[gentoo-user] [OT] free HTTPS not-anonymous proxy

2005-10-11 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi, Will anybody be so kind to tell me about free HTTPS _not-anonymous_ proxy? It seems like some routing problem exists on the way from my IP to target host (it is https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org, IP is determined like 82.113.61.162) I have asked alsa users - the host works. Andrew Gaydenko

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs why reiserfs on boot? why

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Douglas James Dunn
Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 19:19 +0200, Nikodemus Karlsson wrote: Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Nikodemus Karlsson
tisdag 11 oktober 2005 19.35 skrev Douglas James Dunn: Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? Here we go... jupiter ~ # emerge -uDpvt world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is

[gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster. I'd say that this step is

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tisdag 11 oktober 2005 19.35 skrev Douglas James Dunn: Can you paste a emerge -uDpvt world please? Here we go... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] imlib error

2005-10-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice (but maybe this is not important to you). Yes, I don't mind having it in the world file. Better not do

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Nikodemus Karlsson schreef: Hi, almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be installed. Is there an option to get rid of this behavior, so I only get the updated packages with one command? I'm not quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Nikodemus Karlsson
Thank you! /Nikodemus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Mark Knecht ha scritto: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step somewhere to make this run faster.

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I possibly miss some update step

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs shutdown deps

2005-10-11 Thread Jan Hübner
Funny, this time it worked. Any reasons for it working sometimes as expectedt but not always? Is stopping scripts done randomly? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? To me it seemed the metadata part got much bigger a few weeks ago, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Update installed packages, but not install new ones

2005-10-11 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:10:40 +0200 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:52:47 +0200 Nikodemus Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost every time when I do a complete packages upgrade using emerge -u world, portage flags for new packages which is going to be

[gentoo-user] OT: help on rpm fake/virtual spec file

2005-10-11 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi, I want an fake/vitual rpm spec to satisfy dependencies of some commercial software with an ugly install script. My spec looks like this: Summary: Use to generate virtual package to fake /bin/sh. Vendor: bla Name:fake-bin-sh Version: 0.0.0 Release: r1 Group: foo License: GPL2

[gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-11 Thread Jorge Almeida
java hates me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight placeWHACK-A-MOLE

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:32 pm, maxim wexler wrote: But now grub wont work at all. there's either a crash or the thing boots to an error message such as end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0. Needless to say the floppy drive is fine. Or, The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... cornholio ~ # df -h /boot FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/11/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht ha scritto: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that should have caused this? Did I

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, It seems that over the last few months that the 'Updating portage cache' part of an emerge sync has gotten very, very low on my machines. Has anything changed that

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
you may find this link very helpfull: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it broke. Trust

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:43 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: To the question, resize is not a very secure operation, heh, I don't like it because I had issues like having to erase and rebuild my whole partition table Resizing a filesystem doesn't affect the partition table, you change that

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:20:56 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it

[gentoo-user] How to wipe windows for gentoo w/possibility of restoration...

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got a laptop. It has a working win xp system on it (plus all apps, etc). I want to wipe windows off of it and put gentoo on it. But, after gentoo is up and running, I'd like to create a partition to restore the windows partition to. Laptop has a CD burner for storing the data. But I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:01 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: java hates me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ revdep-rebuild -p Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, will be recompiled.

Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory

2005-10-11 Thread bruce harding
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 03:16:52 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:08, bruce harding wrote: I've got 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Registered ECC. Is it possible that this if I ran memtest86+ for 2 days straight and found no error that

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-11 Thread Fernando Meira
On 10/11/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira schreef: On 10/10/05, Jason Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled: I think I have radeon driver built-in the kernel.. does that meanthat it is loaded before agpgart? agpgart and intel_agp are

Re: [gentoo-user] How to wipe windows for gentoo w/possibility of restoration...

2005-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:06:41 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: I've got a laptop. It has a working win xp system on it (plus all apps, etc). I want to wipe windows off of it and put gentoo on it. But, after gentoo is up and running, I'd like to create a partition to restore the windows

RE: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Young
FWIW, I had the same problem, (compile would hang, no error, no message, nothing), while installing a dual AMD64 system last week. I got past it by using kernel switches to force single CPU (nosmp), and disabling the apic (noapic), during the install. Don't know for sure which switch resolved it,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:13, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... and the OP said, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:20, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of thing part of the baseline setup. I couldn't administer it if it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for all your suggestions. I look forward to implementing them just as soon as my 120G gets back in service(if it does). BTW anybody know how long Maxtor warranties their cheap ATA drives? The 120 in question I bought from tigerdirect.ca about 6mos ago. --- Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:18 pm, Mark wrote: Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go through all the settings again? 1. cd /usr/src 2. tar xjf /path/to/downloaded/kernel.tar.bz2 3. cd

Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:35, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:18 pm, Mark wrote: Is there a way I can apply all of the options I set last time I ran make menuconfig to the new kernel I just downloaded, or do I have to go through all the settings again? 1. cd

Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:39 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. Come on, Volker, don't begrudge me a little fun ;-) I like seeing my 12 kernels listed all nice and neat in the list. Maybe one day I'll have a need to revert back

Re: [gentoo-user] before I upgrade the kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 04:50, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:39 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: Hand copiing and editing grub.conf/menu.lst is just not needed. Come on, Volker, don't begrudge me a little fun ;-) I like seeing my 12 kernels listed all nice and neat

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 01:18, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:20, Mark Knecht wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb OohVERY scary. Not where I want to go for a problem like this. I'll wait for the developers to make that sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:58 am, Francesco Talamona wrote: Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge refused to work, I had to comment both lines in /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. That was the