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

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 faste

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be > set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to > do for you. We did not have it before. > In the past was fixed to 100Hz, then to 1000 appeared, now there is a third optio

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning

John Jolet wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:59, gentuxx wrote: > > >>>- Mark Shields >> >>IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost >>everything turned on, and/or build the modules so that they can >>maximize the hardware compatibility. So it is likely that ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Size of portage tree

Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:29:17 -0300 > Jos__ Pablo Ezequiel Fern__ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:21, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: >> >>>no, but I noticed, that reiserfs needs much less space with small >>>files (like portage tree) than e

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge php fails

Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Hi, > > emerge php fails if xml2 is not deactivated by USE="-xml2". Does it > happen to you too ?. It seems that there is a double declaration in > php and xml code. > > Thanks. here is working. php-5.0.4 should work too (and have a lot less problems). If you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

Mal Herring wrote: > Hi List, > Been looking on forums.gentoo.org looking for a way to pair two NIC's so > that should the primary fail, the secondary takes over... > > The situation is this: > > 8 HP DL380G4's all running Gentoo moving into a data centre rack, the > firewall is currently a Netsc

Re: [gentoo-user] openLDAP with mysql backend (problems with libmyodbc.so => undefined symbol: lt_dlclose )

Claudinei Matos wrote: [...] > Looking around I've found that libmyodbc3.so is provided by myodbc > package which one I've emerged and setup in both odbc.ini and > odbcinst.ini like the tutorial says, but now, if I try to run > iodbctest that's what I get when I type "DSN=ldap": > 1: [iODBC][Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.0 => 4.1 upgrade

Free interpretation of Maurice van der Pot replay to this same email on gentoo-dev : > --result-file=BACKUP_MYSQL_4.0.SQL > [...] > > cmd# cat backup_mysql_4.0.sql \ Those two are the same file, so either use lower or UPPER case name. Also the password insterted during the ebuild /var/db/

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php

Kurt Guenther wrote: > > dev-lang/php-5.0 popped up as one of my updates, so I dutifully deleted > dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php, and emerged this package. > > Now, I can't find a suitable mod_php, and portage wants to reemerge > dev-php/php-4.4.0. > > Seems like a catch-22, so I'm going to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql no longer working :-(

Antoine wrote: > >> This is most annoying! I have not modified anything (though have been >> trying to install rt and some other trouble ticket systems) but it >> seems pretty dead. A remerge did nothing. > > > I ended up getting rid of the databases I had before (including one that > rt tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

Michael Crute wrote: > On 9/7/05, *Bastian Balthazar Bux* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/file/docs/php-upgrading.html?format=raw > > > So no need to overlay it to

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

Bryan Whitehead wrote: > I currently run php 5.0.4 as build thru portage > > For some reason, portage only has up to 4.4.0 now. Was php 5.x > abandoned? What's going on? > > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=mod_php > > looks like only 4.4.0-r1 is around now... what the heck? > ht

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

krzaq wrote: > Hi list! > > Is it possible to tunnel IPX protocol inside VPN (for ex. openvpn) ? > never used it, maybe "ayiya" ? http://unfix.org/~jeroen/archive/drafts/draft-massar-v6ops-ayiya-00.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with mysql

Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:04 -0500, Paul Maszy wrote: > >>You shouldnt have restarted. >> >>mysql is already starting on boot up. It showing that many mysql >>daemons is normal and ok. >> [snip] > > > I ran /etc/init.d/mysql stop and it stopped without error -

Re: [gentoo-user] What is HIGHPTE option in kernel?

Ow Mun Heng wrote: > [quote] > Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem (HIGHPTE) > > The VM uses one page table entry for each page of physical memory. > For systems with a lot of RAM, this can be wasteful of precious > low memory. Setting this option will put user-space page table > entries in

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] >>Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux >>that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), > > > Please anybody, correct me if I'm wrong, but afaik, this assumption that > there are multiple firewall programs in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal firewall for Linux?

Nagatoro wrote: [snip] > > Not an answer but a follow up question: Is there a firewall for Linux > that can do application level filtering (probably wrong terms but...), > that is is there a program that can block foo from web access but allow > it to imap and at the same time allow bar web acces

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for > some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which > my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP > address of the machine? I've forgotten what it

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 "el nino" simple user restricts

Gyuri wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >> Frank Schafer wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:38 +, Gyuri wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Frank Schafer wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 "el nino" simple user restricts

Frank Schafer wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:38 +, Gyuri wrote: > >>Frank Schafer wrote: >> >> >>>Hmmm, If I'm reading this and if I'm seeing that this is not the problem >>>of just one user ... I'll be very glad to install with 2005.0 8-| >>> >>>... if this appears right after installation

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 "el nino" simple user restricts

Gyuri wrote: > Hi guys, > I've just downloaded, and installed Gentoo 2005.1 El Nino. I have some > experiences with former Gentoo releases. But there is a little "bug" > (maybe?) in "el nino". A simple user cannot read the contets of the root > ( / ) partition, she/he can only read and write in his

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Fernando Meira wrote: > >>- move the system from hda4 to hda1, the way you said. BTW, "cp >>-a" or "rsync" would get better results? > > > Better use tar, thru the buffering it moves data in bigger chunks: > less seeks, much quicker. At least, copying /usr/portage wa

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation 5.0 upgrade

Grant wrote: > Hello, I've purchased vmware workstation 4.5 and gentoo wants to > upgrade it to 5.0. If I go ahead with that emerge will I be able to > use the upgraded product with my 4.5 license? > > - Grant > Don't know, if you can't use your licence with 5.0 mask it doing the following: ec

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

> Question: I had a bootable flag on my windoze partition before (hda1), > though /boot was in hda4. Now should I move it to where /boot will stay, > right? keep the bootable flag *only* on the win partition, it's the only one that need it. > > Thanks, > Fernando. > O

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] What's going on with X.org?

Holly Bostick wrote: [snip] > Go, dev team! We believe in you! If anybody can manage this migration > (relatively) painlessly, you can! have a preview, pasting from gentoo-dev: Donnie Berkholz wrote: |Donnie Berkholz wrote: | | I started a brief migrating to modular X howto, on popular demand. |

Re: [gentoo-user] TWO (probably stupid) questions about partitions

Fernando Meira wrote: > Hi, > > this is how my disk is divided: > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Does openoffice really require pam?

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo > | *REALLY* require pam? > > No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh. > So it's possible to #emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

Richard Fish wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux >> #Command (m for help): q >> >> ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.b

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

Richard Fish wrote: > Jarry wrote: > >> >> Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and >> 6., and to automate it with some scripts... > > > > Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if > I would really recommend it. > > If you are using a st

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > >>In the newer kernels (>= 2.6.10 ??) there is a search functionality >>callable with the key "/" . > > > About time they had something like this! > > mm had them fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Missing IPtables

Tim Igoe wrote: > cd /usr/src/linux > > make menuconfig > > edit the kernel options to set up the iptables parts needed in the > kernel (can't rememebr where they are - not just at my normal box atm) > > then install the new kernel like you did originally Just a reminder here, all the answers a

Re: [gentoo-user] automatic restart of crushed processes...

Jarry wrote: > Greetings to all Gentoo-users! > > Is it somehow possible to check, whether a certain process is running, > and if not, then start it? I would like to use it for some processes > that crush sometimes (like teamspeak and some game-servers), and to > mointor sshd, because it is critic

Re: [gentoo-user] Big data Cluster

David Busby wrote: > I'm looking for reccomendations for storage clustering. I'd like to > network together some Gentoo boxes which internally are SCSI+RAID5 and > then be able to store data on these multiple boxes as though they are > one big filesystem. Similar to what Isilon does but with Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Static routes

Leonid Podolny wrote: > What is a standard way to add static routes at gentoo? I tried to google > around and have found some refereneces to /etc/conf.d/routes, but > nothing about its expected format. > with =sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.12-r3 documentation live into /etc/conf.d/net.example using ip

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > >>yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off >>qmail and postfix. > > > Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is > better than package Y - most of us are just s

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

Antoine wrote: > Hi, > I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means > that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently > running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux > user, though not a fanatic like me ;-)) that there are

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -pv world error

Ramón Gutiérrez wrote: > go to */ect/make.conf* and add *ACCEPTS_KEYWORDS="~x86" * > case sensitive > -- > Ramon Gutierrez no don't go, stay with us -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . .

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 stopped logging referrers

Grant wrote: > It seems that apache2 has stopped logging referrers. Where can I set > it to log them again? > > - Grant > into httpd.conf put something like this: ErrorLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_error CustomLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_log common CustomLog logs/this.is.your.site.com_refe

Re: [gentoo-user] Unregister

Junk Funk wrote: > Cant unregister this mailinglist > Tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > With no result. > GRRR > Help > /J it's in the headers of every message: List-Unsubscribe: --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

Stoian Ivanov wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2005 20:09, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: > >>Stoian Ivanov wrote: >> >> >>>Nope this is not the case: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # grep MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf >>>MAKEOPTS="-j1" >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # >> >>That option does not mean that you can not start emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: foomatic build(rebuild) broken

Stoian Ivanov wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2005 18:24, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: > >>I think this may happen if you're emerging in parallel (e.g. emerge started >>on >>two consoles) > > > Nope this is not the case: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # grep MAKEOPTS /etc/make.conf > MAKEOPTS="-j1" > [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

Colin wrote: > Calvin Walton wrote: > >> On 5/31/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> When will Reiser4 be added to the Gentoo kernel? I can emerge >>> reiser4progs, but I can't mount the volumes nor use them in /etc/fstab. >>> -- >>> Colin >>> >> >> Although reiser4 is not in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 27 May 2005 07:50, Mark Shields wrote: > > >>especially since now I've been looking at my log files I've noticed it's >>being hammered everyday by ssh break attempts. > > > Define "hammered". How many attempts per unit time are you seeing? > > By the way, I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs not in /var/lib/portage/world

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >[...]They will **not** be added if you used emerge > =whatever-1.23 (or any ranged dep) > There are plans change this case? Is it a wanted behaviour ? -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my h

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/build problem

Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > Hi, > > Since a few days, and after emerging a number of packages, emerge doesn't > seem > to be able to find libraries in the /usr/lib directory anymore. Or beter, as > far as I can see it doesn't even look there. The problem shows while it looks > for the openssl li

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

James wrote: > Hello, > > Cleaning up a system, I ran emerge -pv depclean. > The list looked fine, so I preceeded. > > The only problem I seem to have is 'updatedb' has disapeared. > Any ideas how to get it back? eupdatedb still works fine, > although I'm not sure they are equivalent? > > though

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

Grant wrote: > How do you tell an app to use linuxthreads instead? What is the point > of +nptlonly? A more compact installation? A trick to make an app use linuxthreads is set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 in the env your app will run in. --

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > >>another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want to >>optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before to build >>it (and for this google is y

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

James wrote: > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > Kernel images are only this big: > -rw-

Re: [gentoo-user] "pushd" and "popd" are usable on all gentoo platforms ?

Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > the subject say it all ;-) this two command are always existent ? > thanks alll -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (

[gentoo-user] "pushd" and "popd" are usable on all gentoo platforms ?

the subject say it all ;-) this two command are always existent ? -- . These pages are best viewed by coming to my house and looking at . . my monitor. [S. Lucas Bergman (on his website)]. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL and glibc

Dave Nebinger wrote: >>I have recently built a new Gentoo 2005.0 box with a stage3 tarball. I >>set the NPTL flag (among others) and rebuilt the entire system. It does >>not appear that NPTL is sticking and I am not at all sure why; instead >>it has pulled in the linuxthreads package. Can anybod

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -C doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

Edward Catmur wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >>Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any >>altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. >> >>This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect >>or is it some

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

> information is now obvious. Now even the "cat /dev/input/mice" does not > bring back my mouse. GRRR. :-) this seems to be a Tom & Jerry story :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

Jerry McBride wrote: > Anyone done anything "big" with the new compiler yet? Like an "emerge -e > world"? > > This bug : http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21167 make some things difficult, anyway you can compile 95% of "emerge -e" but do it only in a thrashing ready environment. --

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >> This is not totally true, default useflag changes because >> "emerge --sync" update profiles or because you 've installed a >> particular package. >> This mean that after an emerge -

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

Dave Nebinger wrote: >> emerge portage >> etc-update [...] > >> emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > > You don't need --newuse unless you changed your use flags in /etc/make.conf. This is not totally true, default useflag changes because "emerge --sync" update profiles or because yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter

Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be > restarted. > Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the > internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart > http://www.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] what is a normal 'emerge -ep system'?

Benno Schulenberg wrote: [snip] > But when I do an 'emerge --depclean -p' it ends with: > > Packages installed: 406 > Packages in world:105 > Packages in system: 62 > Unique package names: 403 > Required packages:417 > Number to remove: 3 > > Only 62 packages in system? Okay, may

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDv --newuse world" want a lot of java (aka teach me DEPEND)

too late, is a in bugzilla -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] "emerge -uDv --newuse world" want a lot of java (aka teach me DEPEND)

Ola' can someone explain what is trying to emerge the two blackdown java vm ? Also strange is that "-java*" Related stuff: a) The box (~x86) has finished yesterday the following sequence: # emerge -ev world # emerge --sync # emerge -uDv --newuse world # emerge -uDv --newuse world # revdep-rebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated > hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - > and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some > appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happ

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

Pavel wrote: > Since I put Gentoo on my workstation (2 years ago ) , never had > segfaults with reiser3fs ;) > I prefer ***CENSURED*** for my /usr/portage , reiserfs for my > /usr,/var,/boot,/home and XFS for my isos and music ssshhh don't ever mind at that file system if ciaranm is around ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

[snip] A little further note: Try to avoid unmerging *anything* in "system" Portage *always* assume that all "system" is installed. always not exist but it's a good approx ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > >>>2. Do I need udevtools? >> >>what's this?, it's not present on my boxes > > > I guess I meant "udev" - I just checked and it looks like its already > insta

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

A. Khattri wrote: > > Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few > questions: > > 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already > installed). Don't know but i think it has utility for ext3 too > > 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not presen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 > | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better > > What, are these "turn absolutely everything to Y

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: > > > >>Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some >>journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 >>(partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). > > > for /boot (shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0

Reno Romanin wrote: > I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile > ln -sf blah blah... > > Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to > emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I > get this > > *** This c

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

Jose Moreira wrote: > Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the > vidalinux forums. i dont have a clue about whats wrong ... grrr > > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 18:46 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >>Jose Moreira wrote: >> >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

Jose Moreira wrote: > i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong > tell me and i'll leave, no prob. > No probs, simply we don't know what differences exist between gentoo and vidalinux, so you will need to "filter" the question you do on this list . for example this ti

Re: [gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed gentoo 3 days ago. > > I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC when > using emerge --sync. > > Thank you for your help. > > Al Bayrouni welcome, GENTOO_MIRRORS is used when downloading source packages *not* with "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: sed: can't read /etc/make.profile/make.defaults: No such file or directory

Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > > Hi, > > Every time I open up a terminal(gnome-terminal or xterm) I get the > message above. I've read up on the profile changes and made the change > which I think is correct: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 8 08:39 /etc/make.profile -> > /usr/portage/profiles/def

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > MalachiX wrote: > >>I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on >>Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt >>backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that >>freezes

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

MalachiX wrote: > I have been battling an ongoing problem for a while. When I am on > Linux, X will just randomly freezes/hangs. I can not control alt > backspace. The mouse still moves though, it is only the screen that > freezes. > > The problem has been on Gentoo forum for a few months now:

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I have a system with an apparently dead keyboard interface. is there > any chance I could use the standard (or near standard) minimal boot CD > and install everything via serial console? > > thanks, > ---eric > > people has used the ps2 mouse attach too ;) some crazy

Re: [gentoo-user] Update problems

Buwalda, A. wrote: > Whoa, this suprises even myself, am I messing things up here (its not my > only box)? Anyway, this is the path: > > ls -al /etc/make.profile > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 Apr 8 22:30 /etc/make.profile -> > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4 relink it to: /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] No MySQL 4.1 Support ?

Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > Hi, > > Gentoo must be the only distribution on the planet that doesn't have > support for MySQL 4.1, what's up with that ? Lack of interest from the > community ? I see a 4.0 stable ebuild and 4.1 which has been masked > but still can't understand why there isn't a stable

[gentoo-user] gooooday XGI users

http://www.xgitech.com/about/about_press1.asp?CTID={C3FD7D03-6BE1-4BB9-9F34-1221E723B87F} -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

Jason Cooper wrote: Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --syn

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

Matthew Cline wrote: I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile and moving the kernel around and such. What's wrong with make && make modules_install && make install? probably that you forget 50% of th

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/make.profile again

[snip] answered on gentoo-dev -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

Dave Nebinger wrote: All I can say is that from my point of view, I haven't done anything to break it & the man pages are not double installed. Sorry, Maxim, I wasn't trying to infer that you had done anything to make this happen. Same thing occurs on my gentoo boxen. It's only a minor annoyance

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cause uniq(1) to filter this output ?

Maxim Vexler wrote: = $ man -k mkdir mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a directory mkdirhier(1x) - makes a directory hierarchy mkdir(1) - make directories mkdir(2) - create a directo

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf problem

Botykai Zsolt wrote: [snip] and realised as it's a binary it contains some weird lines like: 1. line: <<< /etc/config-archive/usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp Later line: == I thought it was dispatch-conf inserted this lines :-( right, take a look @ http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.li

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate posts from "John Lowell" on the Digest

A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: yes if the user was using windoze only as telnet client (from a dos session) to a unix machine. Otherwise your switching time assumption are a bit too optimistic. Not really: http://software.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

Kathy Wills wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: [snip] 2) Has anyone idea on how to solve this ? I prefere dispatch-conf to etc-update and if it's possible have it usable ... That is the reason I don't use dispatch-conf. This extra that it would add to my /etc/init.d files would preven

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 00:56:51 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in xorg stopped working. discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle very well binary files. The

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf and binary files borkage

Edward Catmur wrote: After an "emerge -e" runned as usually dispatch-conf , but keyboard in xorg stopped working. discovered that this happen because dispatch-conf ( rcs ) doesn't handle very well binary files. First, in /etc/dispatch-conf.conf make sure this line does NOT have "-a" in it. # Diff