Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ----> Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:13:10 -0500 schrieb David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba > > [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl > !!! Invalid db e

Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile

2007-11-29 Thread Andrey Vul
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199831 -- Andrey Vul int i;main(){for(;i["]

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ----> Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread ezotrank
On 23:13 Thu 29 Nov , David Relson wrote: > > > $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba > > [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt > !

[gentoo-user] equery depends ----> Invalid db entry:

2007-11-29 Thread David Relson
$$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry:

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)

2007-11-29 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 27, 2007, Philip Webb wrote: > 071127 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > I decided that the time has come to switch over to 64bit computing > > and went with fresh LiveDVD install of gentoo. > > After doing stage3 install and making syncing portage > > I'm failing updates on gcc and sandbox -

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAIL (Connection error)

2007-11-29 Thread forgottenwizard
On 13:50 Sat 03 Nov , Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:22:18 -0500 > forgottenwizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure what the purpose of telneting my own system it, either. > > Would I be looking for an open port? > > Telnet clients are useful debugging tools. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this: check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if it's dying, you'l

[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems

2007-11-29 Thread Grant
My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are VERY long delays in responsiveness. I've run fsck /dev/hda3 but it reports nothing wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this thing to straighten its

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:19 -0300 "Rafael Barrera Oro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a > good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have > the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped > out) s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:56:14 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally > > net.* is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) > > That script only calls functions define

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:53:57 -0500, Derek Bodner wrote: > Some sysadmins worry about having a compiler installed on a production > system, and there are valid reasons to be concerned, but most of those > can be averted with a little extra care. In the end, I think the worry > about a compiler is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Derek Bodner
After having used RHEL/CentOS and Debian in the past (for a binary system, I really like Debian), I'm at the point where I get frustrated working on a non-gentoo server. I had used Gentoo in the past, but in the last 6 months my place of employment has been deploying more and more gentoo servers.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Aniruddha
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: >The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a > good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the > opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) > server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing befor

[gentoo-user] Gnome fonts problem

2007-11-29 Thread Adam Johnson
Hello all, After updating to Gnome 2.20.1 my fonts became very small and unreadabale. When i try to rebuild any fonts i receive error like this below during emerge. Any suggestion how to fix this ? >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-fonts/dejavu-2.21 to / * dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 S

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Wayn0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) linux virtualization some links: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer -- [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Galevsky
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what tools do you need ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Wayn0
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

2007-11-29 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with up

Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)

2007-11-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Nov, Billy Holmes wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> ImportError: /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol >> JVM_GetClassSignature, >> version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libjvm.so with link time >> reference >> > > does it really need 1.6? 1.5 and 1.6 aren't a

Re: [gentoo-user] "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc" didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hi Michael, Yes, bzcat works for bz2 compression file. Thank you! Regards, Wen On 29/11/2007, Michael Schreckenbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm a noob. I tried "zcat > > /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sa

Re: [gentoo-user] "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc" didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hi yoyo, Yeah! Bzcat works! Thank you! Wen On 29/11/2007, YoYo Siska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chen Xianwen wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm a noob. I tried "zcat > > /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc"" but > > it didn't work. Please help me. > > bzcat instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc" didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: > Hello all, > > I'm a noob. I tried "zcat > /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc"" but > it didn't work. Please help me. use bzcat instead. use zcat for *.gz bzcat for *.bz2 > Wen Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gentoo-user] "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc" didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread YoYo Siska
Chen Xianwen wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a noob. I tried "zcat > /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc"" but > it didn't work. Please help me. bzcat instead of zcat? yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc" didn't work.

2007-11-29 Thread Chen Xianwen
Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried "zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 >> ~/.conkyrc"" but it didn't work. Please help me. Wen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out

2007-11-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random port > > number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 > > connections . . . > > try two things: > > 1) put your sshd on port 443 if you can. see i