Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > > OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to > > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or someting? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-28 Thread John Krukoff
not in control > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list UAC can be disabled. Fairly easily, in fact: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-user-account-control-ua c-the-easy-way-on-windows-vista/ - John Krukoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-24 Thread John covici
gt; require that on the kernel line > Well, I had to put a lot more parameters for it to work -- I am not using grub but my parameters aside from the ro are init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2 udev and some more specific to me. I am using something close to the original gentoo configs, so it uses an initrd parameter also which you need separately in grub. Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] screen locks too frequently

2008-04-23 Thread John P. Burkett
quot; "cancel," and "unlock." I would be very grateful for suggestions about how to discover what program is locking the system and how to change its behavior. -- John P. Burkett Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Department of Economics U

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-18 Thread John covici
s. Would not these problems be solved by something like rdiff-backup which I have been using for a short time. Its not encrypted, however and I am not sure what happened to the developer, but it does seem to work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-20 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:05:54AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:05 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > > You could unpack a stage 3 tarball to a temporary location then copy > > > the portage files over. If you have portage-utils or equery ins

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-19 Thread John J. Foster
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:29:57AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > > > This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile > > all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. > > You could unp

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-17 Thread John J. Foster
Chris, Strong and Emil - most excellent suggestions, and I'd love to try them out as soon as someone helps me get portage working again! Thanks, festus pgpAMIgASTf6H.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread John J. Foster
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command retu

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal compile failure during world update

2008-03-13 Thread John covici
gnome-terminal-2.18.4/temp/environment'. Any assistance on this would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-07 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:28:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Just for interest, what are the Hz settings on host and guest? Guest - Gentoo - now set at 250Hz and working just fine Host - XP Professional SP2 - I don't have a clue. How do I find out? Thanks, festus > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > > Hi all - it's been awhile > > > > This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by > > http://www.easyvmx.c

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:25:59PM -0700, John J. Foster wrote: > Hi all - it's been awhile > > This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by > http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration > went fine. I normally leave the VM runn

[gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread John J. Foster
Hi all - it's been awhile This past week I've set up Gentoo running in a VM built by http://www.easyvmx.com/ under a XP host. Installation and configuration went fine. I normally leave the VM running when I walk away from the machine, but when I return, time is way off. Shutting down Gentoo & the

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng > > seemed to disappear -- its in the .confi

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
OK, thanks I will check this out. on Tuesday 02/19/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:24:52 -0500, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi. I compiled gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r2 -- however the vesa-tng > > seemed

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
ing to an older kernel version. > > You can do this with eselect kernel list and then eselect kernel set > > -Original Message- > From: John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 12:28 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gen

[gentoo-user] nvidia drivers don't compile under kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread John covici
is that I can't find the vesatng in the .config, but if I go into make menuconfig its there, so can someone explain why things are not working properly for 2.6.24? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? J

[gentoo-user] strange ethernet behavior with Superjmicro mb and Gentoo

2008-02-13 Thread John covici
I must do such a thing? If I don't do the rmmod and modprobe the dual port card is still recognized, but the mb one is not.. Thanks in advance for your help. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

Re: [gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
on Friday 01/25/2008 Andrey Falko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Jan 25, 2008 10:00 AM, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks. I right now have my CCFLAGS set to CFLAGS="-O2 > > -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe" -- now I am getting one of those new In

[gentoo-user] switching CPU's -- what strange things do I need?

2008-01-25 Thread John covici
anks in advance for any assistance. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non Unisys([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > -Original Message- > > From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:59 PM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: RE: [gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non Unisys([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John, > > > I remember having the same problem before and I believe that > deleting the appropriate .gnome and .gnome2 directories would fix the > problem. I'm not sure why this happe

[gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

2007-12-12 Thread John covici
/Xorg.0.log, so I have no idea how to trouble shoot this at all. I am using nvidia drivers 100.14.19 and gentoo sources of 2.6.21-r4. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John C

[gentoo-user] Problems emerging xorg-docs and several other packages

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
s why this happens? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] unable to install php-docs

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
on Sunday 12/09/2007 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi folks. On an update I was doing today I ran into this error while > trying to install phpdocs -- here is the fragment: > > >>> Install php-docs-20071125-r1 into > >>> /var/tmp/portage/app-doc/php

[gentoo-user] unable to install php-docs

2007-12-09 Thread John covici
og/portage/app-doc:php-docs-20071125-r1:20071209-131352.log'. * Anyone with any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici schrieb: > > on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > John covici schrieb: > > > > on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > >

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici schrieb: > > on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > > > John covici schrieb: > > > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > John covici schrieb: > >> on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > >> > John covici ??: > >> > > Sorry if this

Re: [gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici ??: > > Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am sending > > it again. > > > > Hi. I was trying to do an emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world >

[gentoo-user] is it safe to unmask sys-auth/policykit

2007-12-08 Thread John covici
iew of this comment, should I unmaks it anyway and if not, how can I get past this one? Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
is: > > iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --syn -j TCPMSS --clamp > > OK, thanks to all who responded -- I had to do mtu_ppp0=1492 and then I had to do the iptables rule. I still wonder why the native package worked, but not the plugin? Go figure. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici schrieb: > > Exactly where did you put your mtu -- I don't see it in the possibly > > options in /etc/conf.d/net.example for the pppd options. > > It is in the Section INTERFACE HANDLER

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:23:44 -0400 > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > Hi, > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
on Saturday 10/27/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:35:05 -0400 > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network > > has intermittent conn

[gentoo-user] Problem using the pppoe plugin

2007-10-27 Thread John covici
haven't a clue as to why one has this problem and the other does not. Any ideas on this would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-10-08 Thread John Blinka
to the default run level. 3) Repeated steps 1) and 2) for each additional program I wanted to add the the default run level. Everything seems to work fine now. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-28 Thread John Blinka
On 9/25/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 08:07:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > Did as you suggested. softscripts.old reappeared and no change in > inability > > to start nfs automatically, or by hand. > > Hm, does `rc def

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-25 Thread John Blinka
of a fellow sufferer makes me feel better. John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-24 Thread John Blinka
On 9/23/07, Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:37:36PM -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > -> ls -lA /var/lib/init.d/ > [snip] > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 21 13:16 softscripts.old > > That shouldn't be there. Norm

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-23 Thread John Blinka
terally, not a insult, just a comment that its > large > enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull... That was good! John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
> > > that should be /etc/init.d/nfsmount start. /etc/init.d/nfs is for nfs > server. I''m confused by your answer, because tobey is the server, and /etc/init.d/nfs fails on tobey. Perhaps I don't understand something - wouldn't be the first time! John

Re: [gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-22 Thread John Blinka
y don't know. Where would I look to determine whether I'm using 3 or 4? John

[gentoo-user] help with the dreaded mount: RPC: Program not registered

2007-09-21 Thread John Blinka
art nfs or how to debug the problem? As always, thanks for your help! John Blinka

[gentoo-user] Problem mounting USB Drive/MP3 PLayer

2007-09-12 Thread John covici
y. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strange behavior when booting with softlevel=single

2007-08-12 Thread John covici
strange problem when a script in the default level starts another process which I then have to kill manually. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: > > And now here is the relevant section of the config.log file. > > > > configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins > > c

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 10 August 2007 04:59:08 John covici wrote: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --color=n  --verbose --nospinner" > > This is nit-picking but usually (99% of all cases) --verbose isn't needed

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote: > > configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins > > configure:23058: result: yes > > configure:23064: checking which gecko to use

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-10 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 10 August 2007 05:59:32 John covici wrote: > > > > checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes > > > > checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko &q

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
on Friday 08/10/2007 Norberto Bensa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrito: > > > checking whether to compile the browser plugins... yes > > checking which gecko to use... configure: error: Gecko "firefox" not found >

[gentoo-user] unable to compile totem

2007-08-09 Thread John covici
lib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="root" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal" UUCPLOCK="/var/lock/LCK.." VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" VMHANDLE="sun-jdk-1.4" XARGS="xargs -r" _="/usr/bin/emerge" -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] usb mp3 player can't be mounted

2007-07-05 Thread John covici
least its help text in menuconfig says > so... :) There is also another config which I found very helpful -- for at least recognizing a card reader which is not in the default config and that is # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y Hope this helps. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Dell XPS M1710 and Sound

2007-06-17 Thread John covici
uses snd-hda-intel (I think this is the correct module name). I have a few more controls that that, but what I set by hand in /etc/asound.state was something called PlayBack Master Switch which was false when it came iand is now true and that brought up sound. Hope this helps. -- Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
but I think the other settings shouldn't matter. It's also the same as all my other "normal" Gentoo boxes, so unlikely to be the source of the problem. John

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
xdm | default xinetd | default Since all of those daemons depend on network: Are there network > > settings for interfaces that fail on boot up? > > Network works fine. Does that mean: "No there are no failing network related things on boot up"? Yes, that's what it means. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-13 Thread John Blinka
On 6/7/07, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:55:45 -0400 "John Blinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sshd doesn't start >nfs doesn't start >rsyncd doesn't start Are those being started (i.e. tri

[gentoo-user] startup woes with sshd, rsyncd, nfs, portmap

2007-06-07 Thread John Blinka
eas on where to look for problems? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Vaeth wrote: > > > I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed. > > Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today > without a revbump. Thanks you so much Vaeth! festus -- It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to hav

[gentoo-user] Updating eix bombs

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
Yesterday morning while updating world I got the following errors during the emerge of app-portage/eix: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o update-eix update-eix.o varsreader.o global.o setmask.o database/libdatabase.a portage/libportage.a portage/conf/libporta

Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-06 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable > packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a > personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so > this doesn't h

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-04 Thread John covici
on Monday 06/04/2007 Stefan Onken([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2007 schrieb John covici: > > > checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... configure: error: > > This program needs a gtk 2 gecko build Do you have any idea what is wrong? Mozilla did co

[gentoo-user] Problem with yelp while doing --update world

2007-06-03 Thread John covici
ap libg++ mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="root" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal" UUCPLOCK="/var/lock/LCK.." VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" VMHANDLE="sun-jdk-1.4" XARGS="xargs -r" _="/usr/bin/emerge" Script done on Sun Jun 3 15:33:31 2007 -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

2007-06-02 Thread John Blinka
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159006 You could of course downgrade to 0.9.3-r2. Thank you for a simple and direct answer! John

[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

2007-06-02 Thread John Blinka
stalled, I cannot connect to my wireless router. If I uninstall wireless-tools, everything works fine and I can connect. Why does emerge want to install wireless-tools? What can I do to prevent wireless-tools from being installed? Thanks for your help. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: > rc-scripts: WEP key is not set for "NETGEAR" - not connecting Just a sugestion change the name. There might be other NETGEAR units in the area. Excellent idea. Try and ad

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
On 6/1/07, Naga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:16 John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have been using wireless successfully for about a month, until I > upgraded madwifi-ng last night. [...] > Thanks for any and all ideas. reemerge wpa_supplican

[gentoo-user] wireless failure after madwifi-ng upgrade

2007-06-01 Thread John Blinka
oup=0 ap_scan=1 network={ ssid="NETGEAR" psk="xxx" priority=5 } So, why does the rc-script suddenly think I'm using WEP encryption ? Thanks for any and all ideas. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread John covici
u can have it saved or mailed to you -- I did not know this for a while, but it comes in handy -- also you can log the whole thing if you set PORTAGE_LOGDIR -- for the full details look at make.conf.example in /etc . -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: H

[gentoo-user] Problem configuring ppp forpppoe

2007-05-24 Thread John covici
icktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="root" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal" UUCPLOCK="/var/lock/LCK.." VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" VMHANDLE="sun-jdk-1.4" XARGS="xargs -r" _="/usr/bin/emerge" -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-22 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My system had been happily chugging along with X and KD

[gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-21 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got power back,

[gentoo-user] udev net persistent rules

2007-05-02 Thread John covici
pgrade > (which also upgrades the kernel, hence the need for the reboot) I am pretty sure you can do /lib/udev/write_net_rules and that will create the file which you then can fix the mac addresses in the file. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Monday 16 April 2007 11:41:01 John covici wrote: > > > > Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for > > > > updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:43:40 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for > > updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I > > > deleted them using layman -

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-14 Thread John covici
#x27;ve three different machines and all show the same error in dead.letter. > Like yours none of them has a makewhatis under /etc/cron.weekly. It doesn't > make sense to me. I have it as weekly and I just fixed the path -- don't know why nice was moved or what else went wrong. Seems to me it should be weekly, anyway. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:48:40 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > This would also happen if your package.keywords entry was incorrect. > > > eix, after running update-eix, should indicate overlay packages

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:37 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > So what makes you think portage is ignoring them? > > > Well, two things, -- I was trying to emerge a package which had a > > hig

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 12:41:40 John covici wrote: > > > > I am using layman and at a point I had no overlays under layman and now > > > > I have added two but portage is ignoring them. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 03/27/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:16:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > I am using layman and at a point I had > > no overlays under layman and now I have added two but portage is > > ignoring them. I have at t

[gentoo-user] overlays being ignored by portage

2007-03-27 Thread John covici
all. Very strange. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java in mozilla

2007-03-26 Thread John covici
on Monday 03/26/2007 Mauro Faccenda([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Monday 26 March 2007 10:40, John covici wrote: > > As I understand it you have to put a link in your > > mozilla-firefox/plugins directory to > > /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.13/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oj

[gentoo-user] java in mozilla

2007-03-26 Thread John covici
nch spam with award-winning protection. > Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem with usb card reader with gentoo

2007-03-25 Thread John covici
'/lib/udev/hal_unmount' failed I have every possible support in the usb mass storage device as well. Can someone tell me what is happening here? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [

RE: [gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-22 Thread John covici
on Thursday 03/22/2007 Nelson, David J([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > -Original Message- > > From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 22 March 2007 05:47 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] layman overlays > &g

[gentoo-user] layman overlays

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
Hi. I have a problem with the gnome-experimental layman overlay package -- where shold I write to get some help on this one? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/21/2007 Nelson, David J([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > -Original Message- > > From: John covici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 21 March 2007 10:30 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/21/2007 purple([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > emerge -NDuva world?? > nope, this completely ignores the overlays -- it does have [1] and [2] at the end each followed by the name of an overlay directory, but it never gets any ebuilds from either of them. > On 3/21/07, Jo

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread John covici
lay installed, how do I now update all gnome packages to their experimental versions? Thanks. > On 3/21/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > on Tuesday 03/20/2007 Daevid Vincent([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/ >

[gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-20 Thread John covici
ere possible -- I heard there is already a feature freeze on gnome 2.18, so if it can be done, it would be appreciated here. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
on Friday 03/16/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:06:53 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they > > are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
on Friday 03/16/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > > > that th

[gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored

2007-03-16 Thread John covici
se it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using gnomeas non-root user

2007-03-14 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 03/14/2007 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:25:12 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > I checked the .gconf and .gnome2 and even the .gnome2_private, but it > > looks OK to me. I even put a session file in the users .gnome2 > >

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