Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Leave in 10 minutes, but just a quicknote. When emerging an app portage checks it's md5sum, so even a minor diff will cause an exit. You need the same version/file or if you are confident in it's origin do: ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/realplayer-Versio

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

On (28/12/05 23:17), larry wrote: > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:54 pm, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: > > > trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: > > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / > > > >>> Downloading > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:54 pm, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: > > trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / > > >>> Downloading > > > > https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/R

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

Le 28 décembre à 20:42:39 Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | | Leaving out the noexec option? | > | | -- | | Andres > | Ok I try this, see what happens tomorrow at boot.. Well, this was no solution for firefox; looks like there was a corrupt file in my ~/.mozilla...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

On (28/12/05 21:22), larry wrote: > trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / > >>> Downloading > https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm > --21:17:33-- > h

[gentoo-user] emerge realplayer

trying to emerge realplayer, received following error msg: >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 to / >>> Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm --21:17:33-- https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/Real

Re: [gentoo-user] oddity blocking package SOLVED

On (28/12/05 19:30), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Damned if I know how, but the problem has gone away. Maybe I just had to prove > to the box that xpdf was definately NOT installed. > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > [blocks B ] > app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) > > # emerge -p xpdf > > > > [

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

If you're like me and you connect to the web with a string and a tin can, you'll want to save the distfiles for sure. --- Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it > I thought about doing a > backup. :) > Short of doing an image of the whole insta

Re: [gentoo-user] oddity blocking package SOLVED

Damned if I know how, but the problem has gone away. Maybe I just had to prove to the box that xpdf was definately NOT installed. Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > [blocks B ] app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r1) > # emerge -p xpdf > > [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 > [ebuild N] app-tex

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left wil

Re: [gentoo-user]KMAIL Broken

Sorry for not adding a subject line, I'm not used to using my ISP's web interface. Quoting Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it > from a > >terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email.

[gentoo-user] oddity blocking package

[blocks B ] > /etc/portage/package.keywords # emerge -p =app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild N] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 Obviously, xpdf is not installed. It does n

Re: [gentoo-user]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email. Receiving email works properly. 2~QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/RecipientComboBox) The largest allowed size is (32767,32767)

[gentoo-user] Alsa Badness

I dropped my alsa issue into a pastebin, so I'm just going to lazily copy it here. Thanks for reading :) I am using kernel 2.6.14.4 , compiled myself and installed myself. I am using alsa-driver-1.0.10 and alsa-lib-1.0.10. When I try to start the alsasound script, I get pages of errors simila

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

> > > > > How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted > > > > > network? > > > > > > > > tcpdump > > > > > > ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it > > > on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. > > > > The network i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

> > Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources > > kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm > > getting the error: > > > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' > > > > It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I > >

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: > >> On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: > > > >> > What does "not a regular file" mean? :=@ > >> > >> Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character > >> on the left > >> will tell you what kind

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

That seems to have fixed that problem. I'm muddling through a few others, most notably kmail. Thanks Ryan. Quoting Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > dev-lang/python > >selected: 2.3.3-r1 > > protected: 2.4.2 > > omitted: none > > > > > > > Python is slotted, meaning you can

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none Python is slotted, meaning you can have more than one version installed at a time. You're using the current version, but the old one is still there, unneeded. To make sure you've completely migrated to the new

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

emerge -Pp python && emerge -pv python >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: dev-lang/python selected: 2.3.3-r1 protected: 2.4.2 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. These are the packa

Re: [gentoo-user] USB *USED TO* work nicely a couple of months ago...

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:24:18PM +, Stroller wrote > > On 27 Dec 2005, at 11:51, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > I doubt that I had simultaneous failures in one machine's USB system > >and the shirtpocket USB drive. Anyone have any ideas? Has USB setup > >changed somehow? > > I don't do much

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype: esd options

It appears that ESD is setup. I had it ring with XMMS playing. Still a miserable application under Linux ... Kurt Guenther wrote: I'm using gnome, so Skype's docs[1] say: "Be sure to run esd daemon using "esd -d /dev/dsp" because on some distros (e.g. Gentoo) the esddsp wrapper check

[gentoo-user] [OT] Shell redirection magic for audio capture?

Hello all. Being comparatively clueless, I've considered this particular problem for a long time. I finally came to what I believe is a solution, but a clunky one. Can any shell wizards make this work any better? Is there some other solution? In other words, it works, but I'd like to put an exa

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 23:00, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I emerged rosegarden the other day.  When it starts up it tells me that > the MIDI sequencer could not be started. This happened to me a while back. Here's what I did. Change your /etc/make.conf to include +jack +jack-tmpfs and +porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Wrong solution. You do realise that the "updating Portage cache" | > thing is due to a Portage deficiency, | | "Portage deficency"? You mean the fact that python scans some | thousands of files in the file based datab

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

Le 28 décembre à 16:46:15 Andres Becerra Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | On 12/28/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Hello all, | > I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: | > | > "You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 45

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

On 28 Dec 2005, at 16:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I unmerged old versions of KDE and ran # revdep-rebuild -p ... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.3.3-r1". What does `emerge -Pp python

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:31:39 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 > > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > > Do you have this installed? Again, just a guess. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:22:07 -0500 Jerry McBride > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | All the gentoo systems that I admin show the same slow down at about > | 51%. I dearly wish we'd get away from a file based database. And > | before ever

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:16:39 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > "Portage deficency"? You mean the fact that python scans some thousands of > files in the file based database, writing as it goes? > >> and that the real cache is centrally generated, right? > > Yup, from thousands of files in the file

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

first of all, I appologise if this message breaks the thread. I'm using my ISP's web interface as unmerging old versions of KDE seems to have broken kmail On Wednesday 28 December 2005 13:39, a tiny voice compelled Benno Schulenberg to write: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > emerge: there are no eb

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that > > the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the > > ro

[gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

Michael Kintzios wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 28 December 2005 08:20 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined? >> >> >> On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

Man, i really dont know how mount know wich type is... i know that it normally asks for a fs type when it cant recognize the fs type. Are you sure that fstab points /dev/hda1 to /boot using ext3 ? Can you paste your fstab here? Maybe some conflict? -- Cabeçalho original --- De

Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that > the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the > rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me

[gentoo-user] Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:15:14 -0800, Grant wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources > kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm > getting the error: > > mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' > > It's true that I don't have ext2 supp

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

Martin S wrote: > > > 2005/12/28, byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > /root > > > ? why's that? > > Anything special for Gentoo? List of installed apps or something that'll > make things easier if need be? > > > Regards, > > Martin S I tend to keep scripts and

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

Martin S wrote: > Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about > doing a backup. :) > Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should > be backed up to ensure a quick and easy > reinstallation of the working system as of now. > > Regards, > > Martin S a

Re: [gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

> Did you already tried to pass to mount the arguments ? Like mount -t ext3 > /dev/hda1 /boot ! Try this, about the > fstab, it's right, but to know what is wrong with your systems i probably > need more information. Maybe someone > in this list had this problem once and know the solution. > > Go

Re:[gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

Did you already tried to pass to mount the arguments ? Like mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /boot ! Try this, about the fstab, it's right, but to know what is wrong with your systems i probably need more information. Maybe someone in this list had this problem once and know the solution. Good luck!

[gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes

I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me send them some debug information and now they tell me that the problem is with my snd-

[gentoo-user] mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade my server to the latest hardened-sources kernel. I'm trying to mount my /dev/hda1 partition to /boot but I'm getting the error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2' It's true that I don't have ext2 support compiled into my kernel, but I never have. My /etc/fstab lo

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:53:18 -0500, Peter wrote: One more thing that saves time. Mount the portage partition with the noatime option. For as many files as portage has, this will improve performance too. mount -t fstype /dev/hd? /mnt/portage_location -o noatime, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:22:07 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | All the gentoo systems that I admin show the same slow down at about | 51%. I dearly wish we'd get away from a file based database. And | before everyone jumps on me about the various database backend | patches that I can

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild problems

I unmerged old versions of KDE and ran # revdep-rebuild -p I've added a couple of packages to package.keywords and solved past errors but I'm stuck here. All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps -p =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 =app-text/poppler-0.4.2-r1 =dev-lang/python-2

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

2005/12/28, byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: /root? why's that?Anything special for Gentoo? List of installed apps or something that'll make things easier if need be?Regards,Martin S

[gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) = System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-l

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

> -Original Message- > From: Mariusz Pêkala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 December 2005 08:20 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined? > > > On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: > > What does "not a regular file"

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

On 12/28/05, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: > > "You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of QEMU virtual > RAM. > To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap,

[gentoo-user] /dev/shm and firefox question

Hello all, I recently installed qemu; when I launch it I get this message: "You do not have enough space in '/dev/shm' for the 450 MB of QEMU virtual RAM. To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap, do as root: umount /dev/shm mount -t tmpfs -o size=466m none /dev/shm" OK,

RE: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

> -Original Message- > From: John Jolet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 December 2005 14:22 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined? > > > > On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > > Mick schrieb: > > > >> Ideally I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

On 12/28/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, >i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now > (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. > > In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a > card and xorg (6.8.2)? > > Best re

[gentoo-user] x11-drm and r300-r350

Hi list, i would like to know if the x11-drm ebuild, as of now (x11-drm-20051223), supports the r300 and r350 ATI video cards. In particular what is the best open source configuration for such a card and xorg (6.8.2)? Best regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

Martin S wrote: > Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about > doing a backup. :) > Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be > backed up to ensure a quick and easy > reinstallation of the working system as of now. > > Regards, > > Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar" or ssh sourcebox "tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

Le 28 décembre à 13:05:48 Anthony Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | I need to do this automatically. It looks like fetchmail may be what I | am after here. Yes, I'm using fetchmail -> postfix -> dovecot (imap server); but my mail server is not a gentoo box though, I use a clark-connect-

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

> You will want to check out the gentoo mailfiltering gateway guide > at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml which will help > you set up imap, spamassassin and more. Thanks, this should be a good place to start for phase 2 of my setup - i.e. anti-virus and spam filtering. > Moving

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? You will want to check out

RE: [gentoo-user] No X interface...

> -Original Message- > From: Cláudio Henrique [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 December 2005 11:10 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] No X interface... > > > Hi there, > > After a overheat, my computer does not work under X interface. I start > my system w

[gentoo-user] No X interface...

Hi there, After a overheat, my computer does not work under X interface. I start my system without error messages, but when I try to startx, the screen goes black, and only reseting the computer the system is restored. Not even a /var/log/Xorg.0.log output is generated. The same problem occurs if

RE: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

> -Original Message- > From: capsel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 December 2005 21:16 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27 > [snip...] > I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked if savedefault works > from comma

[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? -

[gentoo-user] OT: Setting up an IMAP server to serve mail fetched from pop mailboxes.

Hi all, The short question (for those of you who can't be bothered to read the detail!): What is a good IMAP server to set up on Gentoo? How can I automatically move email from several pop servers into an appropriate inbox on the IMAP server? -

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

On 2005-12-28 14:25:26 +0800 (Wed, Dec), W.Kenworthy wrote: > Thats the world file, is there an equivalent for system? > 'System' is defined in your profile: see /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages > bunyip ~ # emerge -ep system > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calc

[gentoo-user] What should be backed up?

Finally getting my reinstalled box the way I want it I thought about doing a backup. :)Short of doing an image of the whole installation, what files should be backed up to ensure a quick and easy reinstallation of the working system as of now. Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 10:15, capsel wrote: > Have you read info grub ?? > fallback should be on top and it is, savedefault fallback can be in > "title" section and means that I want to save as a default "fallback" > which in my case is 0. > > I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ssh and tar combined?

On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: > Blast, spoke too soon. When I tried to scp over the tar of the /var/tmp > partition it failed: > === > debug1: Sending command: scp -v -p -f /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp > debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtyp

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

Mick schrieb: > Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/files from one > box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar" Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list