[gentoo-user] export/import kdemail

2010-09-30 Thread Paul Stear
Is it possible to copy the kmail mail folders/messages so that they can be read by opera's mail client? Thanks for any replies Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

[gentoo-user] Wacom Serial Digitizer ll UD-0608-R, Help

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Stear
Hello all, I have the above tablet and have been trying to get it working with Gentoo. The problem seems to be that the kernel driver is USB and all instructions I can find seem to concentrate on the USB versions of Wacom products. I am using: Portage 2.1.6.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 29 September 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Don't rely on this script to much. Because it works for me must not mean it does for you. I have tested some cases and I worked every time until now. So verify the output of a manual emerge -pv --depclean atom on the unneeded entry first to

[gentoo-user] where is amd64 list?

2008-03-07 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, For the best part of the week I have not received any mail from the amd64 list. Is there a problem? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-29 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 28 December 2007, Roman Zilka wrote: symlink /mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcod es.so - /usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/libopcodes.so failed: Operation not permitted (1) This is most likely caused by the FAT filesystem on the target

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Stear
Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to collect only directories... full or empty: So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes put this before any excludes: --include=/**/ The trailing slash confines it to direcotories only. Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-26 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: --one-file-system Hi Neil, Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory would be created, would I still need to exclude everything under it?. I

[gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Complements of the season. I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have read the man pages but am not quite sure if I

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +, Paul Stear wrote: I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok, track length and moodbar problem...

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/07, Nistor Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length is not displayed. I'm unable to

[gentoo-user] ssmtp error when using elog

2007-02-24 Thread Paul Stear
Sorry for posting this again but can anybody help? How do I find out what 451 Temporary Local Problem is? Paul Hello all, Sometime ago I stopped receiving elog mail messages. The error in the log is:- sendmail: RCPT TO:my email address (451 Temporary local problem - please try later) !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:24:48 -0700, Grant wrote: I tried using vobcopy to decrypt my The Life of Mammals dd images and, strangely, it's not working. vobcopy outputs the same error that dvdbackup did, something about an error cracking

[gentoo-user] Error when booting

2006-10-04 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, My amd64 based setup seems to be working fine but I have just noticed an error during the boot process. sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at c203cf5d RIP:

[gentoo-user] musicbrainz

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, Sorry to bother you but I am missing the use of musicbrainz in amarok 1.4.0 using kde 3.5.2 on an amd64 platform. When will we get it back? If it's a question of testing I would like to volunteer my services (as a user). kind regards Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with

[gentoo-user] xine problem?

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have a new install of xine on an amd64 system. I have a new dvd (Silent Hill) that starts and then errors with the following:- The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or can't install/use libdvdcss to be

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability?

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Stear
I've been running x86 sources on an AMD 4200+ for several months and it is very stable. Tony Hi, I am wondering if I should run x86 an an athlon 64. I am upgrading my win box to athlon x2 4600 and I'll use the old athlon 64 for gentoo. Does using x86 make the 64 athlon act as 2 processors

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 Stability?

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:39, Friedrich Göpel wrote: On 9/6/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering if I should run x86 an an athlon 64. I am upgrading my win box to athlon x2 4600 and I'll use the old athlon 64 for gentoo. Does using x86 make the 64 athlon act

[gentoo-user] amarok and mysql database

2006-08-28 Thread Paul Stear
Hi All, I have a strange problem with amarok rebuilding the database everytime I start it, so all of my scores etc have been lost. I am using amarok 1.4.1 and mysql 4.1.20, I'm sure it's just a setting somewhere but I can't think where. Any help? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail

[gentoo-user] Error updateing ffmpeg

2006-08-08 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have been having this problem for a few days now I am ~x86, Portage 2.1.1_pre4-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r1 i686). Any ideas? Paul i386/snowdsp_mmx.c: In function 'ff_snow_vertical_compose97i_sse2': i386/snowdsp_mmx.c:461: error: PIC

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:07, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/24/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it is just very slow, the mesage stalled keeps coming up and then starts again. Double check what the connection speed is for XP. You can do the same using ethtool under Linux. You

[gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Stear
I am copying files from my gentoo box to an xp box and it is so slow. I have both boxes connected with cable via a router, which connects to my broadband isp. When downloading from the internet to either box I get fast speeds in the 100's of MBs. However transferring box to box I only get

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 24 July 2006 18:09, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 7/24/06, Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am copying files from my gentoo box to an xp box and it is so slow. I have both boxes connected with cable via a router, which connects to my broadband isp. When downloading from

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 24 July 2006 19:46, Daniel Huckstep wrote: Are you sure it's actually slow or are you just looking at the number thinking it's slow... If you are getting fast speeds in the 100's of MBs from the internet then I want your internet connection. it's probably more like 100's of KB...

[gentoo-user] ssmtp - How to set up

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have never got system messages, cron messages etc to work in gentoo. This really hasn't been a problem but the more progs I have running the more I think I should attempt to get this working. Especially elogs. I have ssmtp installed but not set up correctly, I have looked at the man

Re: [gentoo-user] Epson CX5400 printer and scanner conflict?

2006-07-16 Thread Paul Stear
Thanks Richard I did option 2 and all is working well. 2. Change the GROUP:= setting to be lp. This will let cups access the device again. You will then need to add your user account to the lp group in order to scan. Thanks again Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo

[gentoo-user] Epson CX5400 printer and scanner conflict?

2006-07-15 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Last week I needed to use the scanner part of my MFP and managed to get thing working by using Neil's suggestion that I enter a USB rule in  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules, so I entered the following:- SYSFS{product}==USB MFP, SYSFS{manufacturer}==EPSON, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 This

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 08 July 2006 20:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: But where do I put this? Hi, Neil advised that in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules I enter the following:- SYSFS{product}==USB MFP, SYSFS{manufacturer}==EPSON, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 This worked well and I was able to scan. However, I

[gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have just tried to use my scanner for the first time in months and it is not recognized. However, if I run xscanimage as root it all works well. I have read the man pages and my setup seems to be correct scanimage -L find the scanner as root but not as a user. My conclusion is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 08 July 2006 14:45, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Hi Normally, you have to be in the scanner group. You should try gpasswd -a user scanner and then logout and login. Gian Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 13:16 schrieb Paul Stear: Hi all, I have just tried to use my scanner

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner not working for user

2006-07-08 Thread Paul Stear
On Saturday 08 July 2006 16:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: SYSFS{product}==CanoScan, SYSFS{manufacturer}==Canon, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 Neil, Thanks that's just what I'm looking for. SYSFS{product}==0x0808, SYSFS{manufacturer}==0x04b8, GROUP:=scanner, MODE:=0660 But where do I put this? -- This

[gentoo-user] Samba install fails

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, emerging samba results in the following error:- !!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Called econf '--with-fhs' '--sysconfdir=/etc/samba'

[gentoo-user] Re: Samba install fails

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 13:09, you wrote: Hi all, emerging samba results in the following error:- !!! ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1545: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile samba-3.0.22-r2.ebuild, line 104: Called

[gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I am running an ~x86 system and yesterday I did an emerge world, all went well until the next time I booted. kdm ran but the screen just had a flashing loggin box. I could not even get another terminal using alt F1-F7. So I am faced with not being able to loggin at all. This raises a few

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do when you can't loggin

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Stear
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:11 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: 1. What is the correct procedure to recover a system in this state? What tools do I need? In this case, all you need to do is boot without X, or SSH in from another box. As a last

[gentoo-user] Problem with eix

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I have just tried to use eix but all I'm getting is Found 0 matches. I have updated eix update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: cdb) Reading 100% [1] /usr/local/portage/ (cache: none) Reading 100%

[gentoo-user] mysql won't start

2006-06-12 Thread Paul Stear
Sorry if this is duplicate but I don't think the original arrived. Hi all, I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't connect to mysql Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop * Caching

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql won't start

2006-06-12 Thread Paul Stear
On Monday 12 June 2006 12:09, Alexander Kirillov wrote: snip So it looks as if I have really screwed up moving /var The /var/run/mysql directory is empty Check the permissions on /var/run/mysql. It should be owned by mysql. What's in mysql logs? They're probably in /var/log/mysql Sasha

[gentoo-user] mysql won't start

2006-06-11 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I moved my /var to a new disk and now amarok will nor work because it can't connect to mysql Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) If I /etc/init.d/mysql stop * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] *

[gentoo-user] GETPASS_ASTERISKS

2006-06-09 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am logged into kde 3.5.3 as a user and when I run the superuser konsole I am asked for root's password, this I enter as normal but I get the following error message:- configuration error - unknown item 'GETPASS_ASTERISKS' (notify administrator) It still works for emerges etc. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing amarok

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 06 June 2006 15:43, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk fail with the same lib error. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I am using :- Portage 2.1_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing amarok

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 06 June 2006 15:43, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, After upgrading to kde 3.5 amarok will not start, also I have had juk fail with the same lib error. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I am using :- Portage 2.1_rc4-r3 (default-linux/x86

[gentoo-user] 3 Problems

2006-05-27 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, For some time now I have been getting errors on boot. 1. This happens a number of times:- udev-event [1777]:find_free_number: %e is deprecated, will be removed and is unlikely to work correctly. Don't use it What does this mean and how do I fix it? 1. etc/modules.devfs not

[gentoo-user] Major emerge problem

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Stear
Hi, I am in the process of updating my system to ~x86 and have reached 28 out of 388 packages. The emerge stopped with the following error Error: Failed to import module 'portage_db_cdb.database' File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1290, in load_best_module mod = load_mod(best_mod)

Re: [gentoo-user] Major emerge problem

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Stear
Mhh, are you using cdb with portage ? if yes, try mv /etc/portage/modules /etc/portage/__modules. AFAIK, cdb doesn't work with portage-2.1* regards, Boris. Thanks for the reply, I had just worked it out and now am emerging normally. Thanks Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 18:58, Rick van Hattem wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100 Thanks for the help That worked It is now only showing sda1 Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am so dumb. I partitioned a new disk for 1 large partition, I then needed to make a file system and by mistake I entered mke2fs -j /dev/sda and ignored the warning. I soon discovered that I didn't have any partition so I created it again with fdisk and the made the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Stear
snip all Hi, The mystery gets deeper, every time I mounted the network storage server disk and rsync'd I had a lot of errors. It appears that the mount point was changing permissions every time I mounted. I want all of the directories and files to retain the original privileges during the

[gentoo-user] Mount permissions

2006-03-13 Thread Paul Stear
The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network the /mnt/network permissions have change to drwxr-xr-x

[gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test but I get the following error messages: ssh: connect to host lkd5f port 22: Connection refused rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error:

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
thought ssh was used by default. How do I check if the remote machine allows ssh? Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server with the command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test but I get the following error messages: ssh: connect to host lkd5f port 22

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can copy any files I want - even links seem to work I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this Paul Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-11 Thread Paul Stear
snip The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys network storage box, that in turn is connected to my network switch as are my linux and my windows boxes. snip I have connected one of the discs directly to the usb port. fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 10 Mar 2006 14:42, Harry Putnam wrote: snip I don't really understand the relationship between what you call a server and the actual disks. How is it different from just having the disks on an USB port? The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys network

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:19, Harry Putnam wrote: Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed