David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> G'day,
>
> I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color
> options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell session
> displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. Is there an
> option for telling emacs to han
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:52:55 +0300, Mike Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
In Gentoo, the system is updated while you are
using it.
This causes us users to modify whatever we're running to suit all these
changes.
As far as I know, Gentoo releases a Reference Platform t
I'm using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL and DynDNS and they don't block anything
inbound. I guess since they're blocking Joe's traffic, it's sort of a hit
or miss with SBC or Yahoo or AT&T or whoever it is now.
On 12/23/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is anyone out there using Resi
Did an "emerge --sync" and "emerge --ask --deep --update --world".
When emerge got to x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, the following happened...
checking for cups-config... /usr/bin/cups-config
checking cairo-pdf.h usability... no
checking cairo-pdf.h presence... no
checking for cairo-pdf.h... no
configure
Yeah, the documentation is one of the many great things about Gentoo. I
just wish the software was a little more proactive in fixing update
problems.
On 12/24/06, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been using gentoo for over 5 years. For the first few years I
would sync and update every f
I have been using gentoo for over 5 years. For the first few years I
would sync and update every few days or once a week. Now I may do it
once every 6 months. I waited until the modular xorg kind of calmed down
and there were some good howto's and I updated then. I have 4 boxes here
two that are we
Hi! I know I don't post here much but I read it a lot and have been using
Gentoo for several years now. I keep seeing users mention about how they do
an update and then everything goes to crap. I've experienced this myself
quite a bit too. I believe the reason this happens is the drawback one
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't
> closed for valid reasons?
well, after some discussion @ gentoo-dev, it's now a little bit
clearer:
The bugs are not completely valid yet (but soon will be), since
libpq (
> Would the list admin please double check the mlmmj list administration
tools
> and see if there is some setting for my email address that
> says 'nomail' or 'suspended' or something like that... Is my
> email even showing up in the list (or did my unsubscribes go
> through). Does the list u
Hi,
"emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP
adresses (5 at the moment).
Here's what host says:
# host rsync.gentoo.org
rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73
rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73
rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74
rsync.gentoo.org has ad
Something in definitely strange...
I turned off my Mailhop Outbound service and sent the mail directly via
exim:
I tried to subscribe to a list that I know I'm not already in (the osx one).
I turned off .procmailrc (no recopies and full logging)
daevid exim # grep gentoo /var/log/mail/current
On 12/24/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of
ImageMagick batch command; e.g.
If you manage your photos with F-Spot, there is a cool utility to
export your photos to a directory, scaling them in the way if you
wa
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote:
>
>
>> Well, I tried "emerge mc" and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the
>> process. Then "emerge --resume" emerged mc. Now "emerge --resume"
>> gives the same strange message again. ;-)
>>
>
> emerge --resume reads
On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Well, I tried "emerge mc" and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the
> process. Then "emerge --resume" emerged mc. Now "emerge --resume"
> gives the same strange message again. ;-)
emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binar
Stuart Howard wrote:
> On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-(
>>
>> MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
>> I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo!
>>
>> ;-
>>
>>
>> On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d?
Something to be managed by rc-update?
/sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have "lvm" in
RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/co
G'day,
I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color
options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell session
displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. Is there an
option for telling emacs to handle escape sequences?
Thanks.
David
--
gentoo-user
On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:54, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about '[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql':
> since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs,
Jakub is pretty bugzilla savvy, are you sure you bugs weren't closed for
valid reasons? Sometime he does jump the gu
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-(
MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo!
;-
On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a
power failure.
On 12/24/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you elaborate on this? What init script? Something in /etc/init.d?
Something to be managed by rc-update?
/sbin/rc starts up lvm volumes, provided you have "lvm" in
RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/conf.d/rc. The actual startup of lvm occurs
in
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>
>
>> ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the
>> site saying that it's currently unavailable).
>>
>
> Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after
> cl
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Unpacking source...
>> Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to
>> /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work
>>
>>> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
>>> tar: Child returned status 2
>
On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the
> site saying that it's currently unavailable).
Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after
clicking on it the browser was asking me to sa
On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote:
> > >>> Unpacking source...
> > >>> Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to
> > >>> /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work
> >
> > gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> > tar: Child returned status 2
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous e
On 12/24/06, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 +
Mick wrote:
...[snip]...
> > Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following:
> >
> > dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com
> > hostname osage.osagesoftware.com
> > hostname --fqdn osage.o
· Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hi
>
> i'm trying setup lvm on running system using latest lvm2. lvm and kernel part
> seems ok but rest is problem,after reboot vg and lv are borked.
Please explain what you've done. The exact steps would be
interesting. Also please show what error messages you
First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-(
MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!
I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo!
;-
On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a
power failure. I did fix the FS with a boot CD I did "emerge -e system
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:24 -0600
Dale wrote:
> Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote:
> >
> >
> >> OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something
> >> missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked?
> >> [cut]
> >>
> >
>
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing
>> and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked?
>> [cut]
>>
>
> Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an "emerg
On 24 December 2006 15:12, Dale wrote:
> OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I
> guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is.
Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty
directory after restoration. Same for /dev. I am nott too sure abo
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote:
> OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing
> and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked?
>[cut]
Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an "emerge
mondo-rescue"? Seems like some dependency
hi
i'm trying setup lvm on running system using latest lvm2. lvm and kernel part
seems ok but rest is problem,after reboot vg and lv are borked. For now im
playing with junk partitions.
Do I need put lvm-start(stop).sh in /etc/conf.d/local.start(stop) or somehow
pass to grub initrd line? I don
Dale wrote:
> Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
>> On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
>>> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so
>>> something to boot from would be nice.
>>>
>>
>>
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, guys!
#emerge --resume gives me:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
!!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer
!!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue
!!!the merge oper
Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:23, Chris Walters wrote:
>
>> Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in
>> Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from
>> UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstal
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 +
Mick wrote:
...[snip]...
> > Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following:
> >
> > dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com
> > hostname osage.osagesoftware.com
> > hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com
> >
> > /etc/hosts contains:
> >
> >
On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:25, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> for i in *.jpeg; do
> name=${i%.jpeg}
> convert -resize WxH ${i} ${name}_resized.jpeg
> done
Thank you for a lovely Christmas present! :)
--
Regards,
Mick
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Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I
>> guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks.
>> :-(
>>
>
> For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
>> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so
>> something to boot from would be nice.
>>
>
> Yes, that can be done.
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
>> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so
>> something to boot from would be nice.
>>
>
> Yes, that can be done.
On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote:
>
> OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I
> guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks.
> :-(
For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it
comes with many recove
Hi, guys!
#emerge --resume gives me:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
!!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer
!!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue
!!!the merge operation manually.
#
How could I fix it?
--
Best regar
On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:23, Chris Walters wrote:
> Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in
> Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from
> UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall
> Windows.
>
> After
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
>>> Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on
>>> the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and
>>> kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of
>>>
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
>> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so
>> something to boot from would be nice.
>>
>
> Yes, that can be done.
On Sunday 24 December 2006 08:42, PaulNM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These type of messages:
>
> [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> Error }
> [17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0
> [17180157.02] ide:
It's looking really bad. However, I have seen some messages about similar
messages/problems being addressed by flashing the bios. I have received a
diagnostic utility from Gateway. This is a laptop.
Thank you for the advice. I'll keep trying.
Merry Christmas (in an hour, here in the W. Pacif
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Regis Decamps wrote:
Jorge Almeida wrote:
I'm about to start using LVM.
LVM-user or LVM2?
LVM2. (Don't know about the former...)
So, what's the problem? The problem is that vgdisplay, vgscan, vgchange,
pvdisplay, lvdisplay all say there are no volumes to be found!
Jorge Almeida wrote:
I'm about to start using LVM.
LVM-user or LVM2?
So, what's the problem? The problem is that vgdisplay, vgscan, vgchange,
pvdisplay, lvdisplay all say there are no volumes to be found!
What did I miss?
Have you modified lvm.conf?
Can you provide /etc/lvm/.cache?
One o
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on
> > the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and
> > kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of
> > what's in which file and writ
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:20, David Relson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> > Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a
> > little more digging. I now see that there's
> > hostname
> > hostname --fqdn
> >
On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote:
> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and
> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so
> something to boot from would be nice.
Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue makes the first backup CD boot
On Sunday 24 December 2006 12:43, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort
> of ImageMagick batch command; e.g.
>
> convert -resize WxH something.jpeg something_resized.jpeg
>
> In this case "something" is meant to be the photos in a director
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:09:55 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/category/package
> > ## Dont't copy all ebuilds, just the one to be tweaked:
>
> Unless you are really short of disk space, what's wrong with
> copying the complete package directory
I'm about to start using LVM. I setup a secondary partition with fdisk,
created a physical volume with pvcreate, made a group volume with
vgcreate (out of only that physical volume), created several logical
volumes with lvcreate, and installed filesystems on the logical volumes.
One volume is swap
Hi All,
I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of
ImageMagick batch command; e.g.
convert -resize WxH something.jpeg something_resized.jpeg
In this case "something" is meant to be the photos in a directory. How do I
do this? (me useless at scripting). :(
Mer
El Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:28:05 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters,
> but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a
> bit. This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because
> the
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does
>> these programs preserve file permissions?
>>
>
> Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the
> CD. dar can
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:22:02 +, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Neither of these worked:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>
> gparted shows the whole disk
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
> OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does
> these programs preserve file permissions?
Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the
CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized ch
Hi,
These type of messages:
[17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
Error }
[17180157.02] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=5, high=0, low=5, sector=0
[17180157.02] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[17180157.02] end_request: I/
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