Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/4/8 Dale : > On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain > websites.  After some other people said it worked for them and some > testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in > ~/.mozilla.  I need to transfer my emails to the new clean .mozilla > direc

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade error. help me

2009-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:19:03 -0400, Saphirus Sage wrote: Please trim your quotes. > I saw that, I just found it very odd that you don't keep the initramrd > and kernel image in /boot. Therefore, I was wondering if your issue > was having not properly configured genkernel. I've never seen anyon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 09 April 2009 03:22:23 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > > something similar on my system. > > That's it. It is the same gray "hash" that appears as the background if > you were to start X using xorgcfg to self generate an xorg-config. > > It's obviously something one can learn to live with (I wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree

2009-04-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 09 April 2009 07:48:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Donnerstag 09 April 2009, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> There are a couple of packages (ebuilds) in the portage tree that I > >> would like to eliminate completely from my system and no

Re: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb key

2009-04-09 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wed, April 8, 2009 7:20 pm, maxim wexler wrote: > >> Was quite easy using "unetbootin", it's in the portage >> tree. >> There is also a MS Windows version of this tool. >> "emerge -va unetbootin" > > Thanks Joost, > > I did an emerge -pv unetbootin earlier but there were lots of blocks and > mas

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2009/4/8 Dale : > >> On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain >> websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some >> testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in >> ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my email

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6, multiple problems

2009-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:05:55 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > After upgrading to 2.6.x (~amd64) I have multiple problems in building > python- dependant packages: > > "checking for module... no" python-updater should fix this. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 4: Diet ice cream signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eliminating packages/ebuilds from the portage tree

2009-04-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:32:22AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > is there a good reason to remove them, instead of masking? > > > > If you like spending half a day masking hundreds and hundreds of > > packages using an inflated package.mask, then no, there's no good reason :) > > The OP said "

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6, multiple problems

2009-04-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:33:03 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:05:55 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > After upgrading to 2.6.x (~amd64) I have multiple problems in building > > python- dependant packages: > > > > "checking for module... no" > > python-updater should fix this. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6, multiple problems

2009-04-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:15:24 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Are there reasons to keep 2.5 slot after updating? I don't think there is: all the dev-python packages will be installed for current (2.6) python anyway. I've upgraded to 2.6 soon after it was released and since then had no real issues,

Re: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb keyADDENDUM

2009-04-09 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thu, April 9, 2009 12:40 am, maxim wexler wrote: > >> That's right, you're not using it properly, you shouldn't >> be using any >> options. Read the md5sum man page > > I think I got it: > > heat...@kyzyl ~ $ md5sum -t > download/eeexubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386-20090223.iso > 174b43676c64043770319f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Web server mirror

2009-04-09 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:13:06AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 21:09:57 +, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Ok, but what about databases? Joomla has his own and mediawiki too... > > Just dump it and copy it? Will it work? > > MySQL can be configured to automatically replicate

[gentoo-user] python 2.6, multiple problems

2009-04-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.x (~amd64) I have multiple problems in building python- dependant packages: "checking for module... no" Are there steps to cure python installation? I didn't delete 2.5.x slot, eselect shows 2.6 is selected (I didn't do any selections myself).

[gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:17:17 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? > > It's tetex. No, it isn't. teTeX is obsolete, and should not be used. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2009/4/8 Dale : > >> On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain >> websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some >> testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in >> ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my email

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: > All previous replies very helpful. > > Thanks. > > However texlive-mathextra won't emerge. Any advice? Thanks, > Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add mathextra to the USE for app-t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ABCD wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:17:17 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Would anyone know which portage package would install the stmaryrd fonts? It's tetex. No, it isn't. teTeX is obsolete, and should not be used.

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-09 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 09 April 2009 03:22:23 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: something similar on my system. That's it. It is the same gray "hash" that appears as the background if you were to start X using xorgcfg to self generate an xorg-config. It's obviously something one can learn to li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Thursday 09 April 2009 03:22:23 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: something similar on my system. >>> >>> That's it. It is the same gray "hash" that appears as the background if >>> you were to

Re: [gentoo-user] which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida squawked: All previous replies very helpful. Thanks. However texlive-mathextra won't emerge. Any advice? Thanks, Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add mathextra to the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages

2009-04-09 Thread Mick
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield : > On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: > >> Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux >> following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? > > OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to > TrueTy

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2009/4/8 Dale : > >> On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain >> websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some >> testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewhere in >> ~/.mozilla. I need to transfer my email

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> 2009/4/8 Dale : >> >>> On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain >>> websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some >>> testing on my end, we figured out it was a bad file somewh

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 log messages

2009-04-09 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/9/2009 11:27 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/4/8 Mike Edenfield: On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote: Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts? OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically

[gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Valmor de Almeida: >Willie Wong wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:32:26AM -0400, Penguin Lover Valmor de Almeida >> squawked: >>> However texlive-mathextra won't emerge. Any advice? Thanks, >> >> Not sure if this will help, but try *not* emerging it directly. Add >> mathextra to the USE for a

[gentoo-user] iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread Joseph
I was following this guide to set it up home filter: iptables, DansGuardian, and Squid. http://www.linux.com/articles/113733 in the past it worked but when I try it now eg: iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m owner --uid-owner squid -j ACCEPT iptables: No chain/target/match by that na

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/8 Dale : >>> >>> On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain websites. After some other people said it worked for them and some testin

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dale wrote: > > > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > > 2009/4/8 Dale : > > > > On another thread I had trouble with Seamonkey crashing on certain > websites. After some other people said it worked fo

[gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-09 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: So I figured that I should take a snapshot of the old xterm and post it next to yesterday's posting and allow folks an a:b comparison. But YIKES - when I looked at the photo on the updated box,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jagged, grey, fine, horizontal lines on xterm border

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > > > >>> >>> So I figured that I should take a snapshot of the old xterm and >>> post it next to yesterday's post

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > > Ah yes, I forgot the .db files. This reminds me to make backups of my > .mozilla directory :) Glad you got it all straightened out! > > > Well, this little tidbit of info may help too. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_SeaMonkey It tells wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > What's with Seamonkey 2? I got to check on that. >From what I remember, Seamonkey 2 was becoming more Firefox-and-Thunderbird like in its browser and e-mail components. It's using the newer XUL toolkit and has a Firefox-style add-on manager (renderin

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving Seamonkey email directory.

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > >> What's with Seamonkey 2? I got to check on that. >> > > >From what I remember, Seamonkey 2 was becoming more > Firefox-and-Thunderbird like in its browser and e-mail components. > It's using the newer XUL toolkit and h

[gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-09 Thread Roy Wright
Howdy, I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a functional VLC wouldn't mind posting their USE flags. TIA, Roy

[gentoo-user] ath5k and laptop cpu frequency scaling

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed is scaled down. I am talking about trying to ssh into my laptop taking literally MINUTES to respond when it is running at 800MHz but being instant when it is runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] VLC use flags request

2009-04-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Roy Wright wrote: > Howdy, > > I've been having trouble with VLC (saving from disc, h264+a52) and think > it's related to the set of use flags so was hoping some kind soul with a > functional VLC wouldn't mind posting their USE flags. I don't know if mine will do w

[gentoo-user] Re: which package contains latex stmaryrd.sty

2009-04-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: > * ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2008 failed. The today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -pv -uDN world' showed that this package would be emerged. I was curious what would happen. Well, it failed. Looking for bugs i found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262177 in wh

Re: [gentoo-user] stage 1 howto?

2009-04-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday 09 April 2009, HObbES wrote: > Hi Mick, > > If you have it, I'd like a copy please. I must have stored that 2004.1 LiveCD somewhere very safe, because I couldn't find it after I had a quick look. o_O However, the gentoo website still shows the full installation handbook for 2004.2,

[gentoo-user] Summer of Code Ideas

2009-04-09 Thread James
Hello, Gmane was down for a while, so I'm just now catching up on my leisure reading (this list). Previously a thread was proposed (What annoys you) on SOC ideas. Although much of the discussion was the usual suspects; I did not see many concrete ideas for the SOC folks to tackle. Here's 2 nee

[gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I'm not near as "upset" as I was a little while ago. I ran my updates and then took a nap while it was compiling. I woke up and they were done. Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make me cha

Re: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb key--FIXED

2009-04-09 Thread maxim wexler
> Judging from the footer from yahoo, I am guessing you're in > Canada? Correct > Good luck and keep us posted. This time I got a better connection and downloaded the iso in one go then ran unetbootin on it and this time it worked mw _

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread james
Joseph gmail.com> writes: > > I was following this guide to set it up home filter: iptables, DansGuardian, and Squid. > http://www.linux.com/articles/113733 Here's a link to get you started http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dansguardian

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: >Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No >mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make >me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the >thing. *g* Today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' changed my xorg to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:27:36 -0500 Dale wrote: > I'm back down to my old xorg-server-1.3* but now my mouse wheel don't > work. Did this thing blow up my rat? How do i get my mouse wheel to > work again? Strangely enough, I had the following sections in my xorg.conf for a few years now, -hal,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread Joseph
On 04/10/09 03:46, james wrote: Joseph gmail.com> writes: I was following this guide to set it up home filter: iptables, DansGuardian, and Squid. http://www.linux.com/articles/113733 Here's a link to get you started http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dansguardian Thanks, yes I looked at t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:04:41 -0600 Joseph wrote: > Thanks, yes I looked at them; the Gentoo wiki doesn't works: old, obsolete. ... > Now it works. Prehaps you can find a few minutes to just copy-paste old article to a restored wiki, correcting obsolete part... and someone after you won't have th

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread james
Joseph gmail.com> writes: > >> http://www.linux.com/articles/113733 > >http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dansguardian > Thanks, yes I looked at them; the Gentoo wiki doesn't works: old, obsolete. > The one from linux.com is working but in my case I had a problem loading the iptables rules as afte

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread James
Mike Kazantsev fraggod.net> writes: > > Thanks, yes I looked at them; the Gentoo wiki doesn't works: old, obsolete. > Prehaps you can find a few minutes to just copy-paste old article to a > restored wiki, correcting obsolete part... and someone after you won't > have these problems. H,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread Joseph
On 04/10/09 10:11, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:04:41 -0600 Joseph wrote: Thanks, yes I looked at them; the Gentoo wiki doesn't works: old, obsolete. ... Now it works. Prehaps you can find a few minutes to just copy-paste old article to a restored wiki, correcting obsolete

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables + dansguardian + squid

2009-04-09 Thread Joseph
On 04/10/09 04:56, James wrote: Mike Kazantsev fraggod.net> writes: > Thanks, yes I looked at them; the Gentoo wiki doesn't works: old, obsolete. Prehaps you can find a few minutes to just copy-paste old article to a restored wiki, correcting obsolete part... and someone after you won't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:27:36 -0500 > Dale wrote: > > >> I'm back down to my old xorg-server-1.3* but now my mouse wheel don't >> work. Did this thing blow up my rat? How do i get my mouse wheel to >> work again? >> > > > Strangely enough, I had the following secti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: > Dale: > > >> Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No >> mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make >> me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the >> thing. >> > > *g* > > Today 'emerge --sync'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg-server and my mouse

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Elno
> Dale: > >>Did my etc-update and went to log into KDE. No keyboard. No >>mouse. No nothing. I knew the new xorg-server update was going to make >>me change a few things but I thought I would be ABLE to change the >>thing. > > *g* > > Today 'emerge --sync' followed by 'emerge -uDN world' chang