[gentoo-user] location of update-grub

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm rebuilding my gentoo. I liked having the update-grub script polish off kernel installs, but I cannot seem to locate it. Somebody who has it please tell me what package it's in. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] gentoo rebuild, cups won't work

2008-01-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge apache

2008-01-19 Thread Kevin
Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, I'm building a new machine and I'm having trouble getting apache to emerge. This is a BRAND NEW BOX, with nothing else done to it, so I expected apache to load just fine. Here is the error message I'm getting. Any help would be appreciated. Mike.

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-19 Thread Kevin
Philip Webb wrote: 080119 Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: A problem I have is that Firefox is not deleting .pdf files from /tmp after I have viewed saved them elsewhere (using Kpdf). There seems to be no place in Firefox or Kpdf settings to change this. Does anyone have a useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin
On Jan 18, 2008 12:17 PM, Marko Kocić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never used cable modem and don't know how it connects to the PC, so I might be saying something completely wrong here, Regular network cable going directly from cable modem to laptop. but can't you sniff the traffic

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-17 Thread Kevin
On Jan 17, 2008 7:36 PM, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ eix -e netscape-flash * net-www/netscape-flash Available versions: [M]7.0.68 [M]9.0.48.0!m 9.0.48.0-r1!m[M]~9.0.60.0_beta082207!m ~9.0.60.0_beta100107!m 9.0.115.0!m {debug} Homepage:http://www.adobe.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb problem

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin
Just making sure you didn't read his line incorrectly, but I think Justin was telling to go back to the VESA driver as opposed to the uvesa one. If you are set on uvesa did you try the line video=uvesafb:1024x768 or is that what you implied in the note about it not working. thanks and good luck

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb problem

2008-01-15 Thread Kevin
On Jan 15, 2008 8:31 AM, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Jan 15, 2008 9:52 PM, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just making sure you didn't read his line incorrectly, but I think Justin was telling to go back to the VESA driver as opposed to the uvesa one. If you are set

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/7/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I see that it's now stable, and I'm going to let the emerge go forward. However, I scrolled back my terminal to when I sent that message, and here's what eix gave me then (primarily

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Jan 8, 2008 7:48 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmm, sounds reasonable. Perhaps you mistakenly ran emerge --sync instead of eix-sync that one time? I've done it myself once or thrice :-) I would not have thought so

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 1/8/08, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:30:51 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: However, it is true that emerge sync and eix-update were in two separate jobs scheduled an hour apart. It is vaguely conceivable that they got out of step somehow. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. [I] app-cdr/k3b Available versions: 0.12.17 (~)1.0 (~)1.0.1 (~)1.0.1

[gentoo-user] Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?

2008-01-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
references to x86, and they're in package.keywords for particular package releases whose features I needed. So why am I emerging these things? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/22/07, James R. Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I did nothing to install the tools. I could not find them. There's an ebuild for workstation tools, but not for player or server. I didn't see anything helpful on the download

[gentoo-user] vmware-server requires a serial number, but is free? how does this work

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
something on vmware.com? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] VMWare server + Win 98 = VGA only?

2007-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
shut me up about this. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. NOTE: I don't know whether this is the correct way to do things. Many times it works, but other, less clumsy, ways probably exist (I simply haven't had the need to search them until now). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Use of gethostname() and getdomainname()

2007-11-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on the sender address when my crontab entries call it. Maybe because it sees that getdomainname(2) comes up empty. What's the right way to set this up? Should I just cobble my proper domain into setdomainname(2)? Is there a right way? Is there a better way? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Nah. It's what I get for posting stupid. I just needed to restart firefox. Everything is now good. ++ kevin On 10/25/07, Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.8, not -bin, and printing works fine here also. Just another data point; sorry I don't know how

[gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
just fine. But I'd like firefox to work too. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge firefox 2.0.0.8 and now printing is hosed

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, but that's not a show-stopper for me. ++ kevin On 10/24/07, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just emerged firefox 2.0.0.8 (I think it was 2.0.0.7 before), and now attempts to print a web page bring me to a skimpy little dialog

[gentoo-user] kdelibs won't build after change in GCC to 4.1.2 from 3.4.6

2007-10-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
now. Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] update-grub? I have no such thing.

2007-10-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I see that building a kernel ends with checking for update-grub, which I don't have. Should I? Where does it come from? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Dual failures in emerge -aDNvu world

2007-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
- docs-1.4-r1/temp/build.log'. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/9/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail

[gentoo-user] Seeking threading advice in Perl and Apache

2007-09-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
with threading. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
vendor_perl The current perl version is 5.8.8. The versions 5.8.2 and 5.8.4 date from 2004. Can I safely just delete them? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:13:41 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Can I safely just delete them? Not really. But gentoo provides a tool to sort it. # perl-cleaner reallyall -- Mike William Interesting. I did not know about this cleaner

[gentoo-user] -x11-proto/xineramaproto Digest verification failed

2007-09-08 Thread kevin
localhost ~ # emerge -e world Calculating world dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/x11-proto/xineramaproto/ChangeLog !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size !!! Got: 3741 !!! Expected: 3843 localhost ~ # -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up perl

2007-09-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/8/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 8. September 2007 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Unfortunately, while it tries to do a number of things, they all fail in the same way: a problem with Errno.pm. I guess using perl to clean up perl is not all that robust in this case

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and after using the default thiggie it worked fine. Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 03:08:43 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: Somewhere in the update to 2.2.4-r12, listening got lost. I tried to follow instructions, but apparently failed. Here's what happens (minus a MaxClients warning

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/7/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman skrev: My 00_default_vhost.conf: === start 00_default_vhost.conf == # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here. # #ServerName www.example.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Mystery solved. As expected: my bad. Details at the bottom On 9/7/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/7/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman skrev: My 00_default_vhost.conf: === start 00_default_vhost.conf

[gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
at? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Oddities in apache2 update, other init bizarrity.

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
* WARNING: apache2 has already been started. treat init.d # ./apache2 status * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'cupsd' should be AFTER service 'vmware', but one of * the services 'vmware' depends on, depends on 'cupsd'! [ ok ] * status: started treat init.d # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Evince won't emerge any more

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=vga r128 mach64 radeon fbdev fglrx vesa Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Evince won't emerge any more

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 8/21/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 August 2007 01:57:07 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I try to (re)-emerge evince, it fails while making the help system. This has been true for about a week. Here's the tail end of what's on the console, followed

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-30 Thread Kevin Lacquement
need to manually re-install enigmail before I can sign and encrypt. I'm looking for an automatic way to re-install enigmail when required, and not when it's not required. Kevin pgps8Jt9FnNfQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-30 Thread Kevin Lacquement
work. The problem is that deps aren't updated unless they also require an update. Since enigmail doesn't require an update, it doesn't re-install. However, thunderbird can't see it unless enigmail is manually re-installed, no matter the USE flags or world ordering. Kevin pgpUq6fdiWVFc.pgp

[gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-29 Thread Kevin Lacquement
want to send a message, my PGP options aren't available. Is it possible to have portage automatically re-install the enigmail plugin (or other similar situations)? Kevin pgps4kDaOw5qD.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] What is portage trying to tell me?

2007-07-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
key Type not found Why is this allowed to occur? What am I expected to do about it, and how would I know that, given that I'm a user, not a developer? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean question

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
builtin. So you have to ask yourself what capability are you missing that you want? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
) It outputs everything in the order found, which makes it hard to browse. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

2007-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/15/07, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/15/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, guys. What about that kernel? I'm thinking it's probably not the kernel I'm using, but I'm not positive. thanks, gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 for me. [...] http://www.gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Is webmin a good thing?

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
configurations, or anything else that might go wrong that I haven't thought of yet. So, is anyone using webmin? What's the verdict on this product? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Is webmin a good thing?

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/6/07, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I am looking for system admin tools to replace the laborious -- and sadly error-prone -- manual editing I've been using up to now. I've got a Gentoo and an Ubuntu system

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/3/07, Naga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 00:19:14 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Did I just reinvent a wheel? If not, is there any point it trying to make this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? See DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in make.conf (man page I think, or .example

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. 1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:19:14 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I emerge with the doc USE flag and generally have a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/doc. Most of the time it's the HTML stuff I want to read, but it's a annoyingly laborious to wade

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 7/3/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:44, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It was missing, but I can't emerge kdebase because there are about 20 packages that are blocking it. Maybe that's the problem. This looks odd. You haven't mixed monolithic and meta packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 7/4/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: so you are using split ebuilds - I don't. But since that file was removed accidentally, you should be able to locate the package which owned it, if you grep for it. grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
In 7/4/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have been using KDE for a long long time. Suddenly it's not there any more. anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me

[gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
this part of gentoo? If so, how would one do that? Current script attached. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD makeindex.perl Description: Binary data

[gentoo-user] Lost KDE

2007-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
on with kdebase-pam (4 of 12), but I don't really know how to tell, or what to do at this point to get it back. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird account properties inaccessible

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
://messenger/content/AccountManager.xul Line Number 1, Column 7: anager --^ Obviously, that's malformed, but I cannot find any file where it lives, at least not under my home directory, and there's no .xul in the filenames belonging to Thunderbird. Where should I be looking? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird account properties inaccessible

2007-06-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/17/07, Xavier Parizet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, June 17, 2007 21:22, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In Tunderbird, when I attempt to access the properies of one of my existing email accounts, I get an error in a popup window, complaining about some XML thing. I have been unable

Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
in Konsole. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Revdep won't rebuild gphoto2-2.1.5

2007-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
not that interested in keeping the older version, so I don't think filing a bug makes much sense. I just need to figure out what is calling for the 2.15 version and fix that. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/5/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering with normal emerges because it's got a big red M smacked on it. I suppose that means

[gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
don't normally get. But now I'd like a clue: what's the {prognosis, workaround, fix, alternative}. As I mentioned, I hadn't really started to use it, but I'd like to have a better firewall tool than building iptables scripts in vim. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When

[gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
it). Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because

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

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
spend less than an hour on administration. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
been doing this for years. I mostly reply no to all the prompts, but sometimes the new stuff is interesting. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
(self.file,r) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/All/perl-cleaner-1.03.tbz2' portage # Pointers, please... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Another oops: make that directory /usr/portage/packages. ++ kevin On 5/27/07, I wrote: I'm trying to clean up my hard drive to make it feasible to back up the root partition. I cleaned out /usr/portage/disfiles (10 GB) with no problem. But... I also cleaned out /usr/portage/packages (10 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning /var/lib/portage/packages -- a big mistake?

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/27/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kevin O'Gorman, I also cleaned out /usr/portage/packages (10 GB) but now emerge --sync is complaining about a large number of them, and apparently cannot update its cache. I just moved them to another partition, they're not really

[gentoo-user] Firefox, fonts and stylesheets

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
tried fooling with variations in Firefox preferences, and with the details of the stylesheet, but nothings seems to work. Call me baffled. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
because it can't start cdrecord either. What did I screw up this time? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/6/07, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070506 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm trying to burn a CD for the first time in a long while. It's not going well. I've got cdrtools-2.01.01-alpha10 installed. The description says it includes cdrecord, but I cannot find it. Moreover, K3B fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 4/29/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting

[gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
provide no way to reboot. Going to root via su is not wonderful either, as execution /sbin/shutdown -r does really strange things until it finally gets clobbered I'd like to clean this up: I'd like kdm, and I'd like a menu entry for rebooting. Advice? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM

2007-04-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Never mind. I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off XDM had failed. I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole system. And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up. ++ kevin On 4/28/07, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had it configured for KDM

[gentoo-user] Emerge logs no longer being mailed

2007-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost And everything else is commented out (uses defaults). I'm running postfix, which appears to be working, and forwards my local mail to that same mail URI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What should I be looking for? -- Kevin

[gentoo-user] Bitten by bug #172860

2007-03-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
This seems to be a common bug. There's a patch (manual edit) already available. How do I emerge after patching the ebuild to avoid checksum problems? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/25/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 March 2007, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted': 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught (sic) /dev/nbd16; I have no idea what these are. Block

[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and a message associated with all of my xfs partitions. The message reads fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library. But I emerged gparted with the xfs use flag, and libxfs is also emerged. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin
Peter Alfredsen wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Philip Webb wrote: which does not offer any helpful advice. There are no bugs answering to 'Epiphany freeze' or 'Konqueror freeze'. I'm using Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 Xorg-x11 7.1 . Otherwise, my system is very

[gentoo-user] Portage elogs no longer getting through

2007-03-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
). Shouldn't I still get these messages? -- Kevin O'Gorman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Notices from portage

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I used to (briefly) get notices from ebuilds when I emerged them. Somewhere along the line that stopped, and I have forgotten where it was configured. Anybody got a quick hint? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2007-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
diagrams? Example: http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~kogorman/453/projects/2/06f453-A2-stack.png Which is a bit blurry, even though I've tried to keep the pixels aligned. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had thought it was gonna get big. It now seems like that would be a good idea. Care to: 1) share your code? 2

[gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
might be hiding? ++ kevin PS: the script so far: #!/usr/bin/perl -w chdir /usr/share/doc or die Cannot cd to /usr/share/doc: $!; open FIND, find . -name index.html |sort| or die Cannot fork: $!; print headtitleIndex of /usr/share/doc index files/title\n; print style type=\text/css\\n; print

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/30/06, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:20:18 -0500 Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:03, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: There's a lot of HTML documentation on my computer, but it's wonderfully hard to find and use compared to man pages because

[gentoo-user] VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
apparently successfully. My attempt to /etc/init.d/vmware start fails and suggests both of the above measures. This is pretty serious for me. Any suggestions? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's not configured. I have run /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me. I've been using it for a long time, and the emerge log shows no activity for the last few weeks. Suddenly, it complains that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/27/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:16, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: VMware Player won't start': On 12/27/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMware player will no longer start for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/hostname ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, but I have no name for my internal network, and haven't seen a reason to create one. Nevertheless, even the system calls getdomainname(2) and uname(2) return the string (none). What am I missing? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconfigured system

2006-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated. I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where

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