Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug and coldplug for a hosted server?

2005-12-09 Thread Phill MV
hotplug, afaik, refers to not only the practice of swapping SCSI drives on the fly in busy servers but as well as anything USB related, mounting of drives, and the like. Assuming you won't need to plug in a USB drive all of the sudden  and you keep a spotless fstab and have a sole eth connection, h

Re: [gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Phill MV
ompile, I guess. (PS. Opera 8.5 is waaay laggy for some reason and I like my extensions) On 08/11/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phill MV schreef: > > Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox > > ( mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but

[gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Phill MV
Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox (mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and refuse all interaction. All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; k

[gentoo-user] X freezes & locks up, constantly

2005-11-08 Thread Phill MV
Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox (mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and refuse all interaction. All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; k

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11, why hath thou forsaken my 2nd screen?

2005-10-26 Thread Phill MV
In a haste to get the latest gnome-light packages, I ran ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -Duva world without thinking about the consequences and ended up running an 'unmasked' system. Now, this is okay. I'll just wait till said packages go into the stable depository or downgrade or something. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
Legally binding, maybe  But enforcable, hardly.  Had the individual mailed youdirectly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversationbetween the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to sharepri

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
this is required by many companies legal departments.  Some places even add itat the mta, not the client. :\ that sucks. That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Phill MV
"We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version." Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it. LSB is sort of a pain and one sided, based on their 'st

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

2005-09-27 Thread Phill MV
Well, *something* is trying to access a function that doesnt exist in NDB; whether we know what it does or why, I'm guessing it's a behaviour that shouldn't happen :P. I suppose whatever tries to access NDB has a bug in it... but what would that be?On 27/09/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > w

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

2005-09-27 Thread Phill MV
That makes me feel much better. On a related note, shouldn't we be filing bug reports, then?  Yes, I was getting the same errors/warnings; it finally annoyed me somuch that I recompiled the kernel without NBD support, since I couldn't find any suggestion that I actually needed it, and all was well

[gentoo-user] Weird "Buffer I/O error" in dev ndb0

2005-09-26 Thread Phill MV
Evertyime I boot up I gett a long string of weird buffer errors shortly after udev starts up; stuff like nbd0: Request when not-ready end_request: I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 4294965120 where ndb0 changes up to ndb12. I still have no clue what dev/ndb0 refers to,  but the computer still seems

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Phill MV
Nor will there ever be any implementation of it, as far as I know. Try wine'ing Internet Explorer, that usually works just fine.On 25/08/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/25/05, James < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla?htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

2005-08-05 Thread Phill MV
lock a given packages?>>> Phill MV wrote:>> > After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and > > type emerge -uva world.> >> > Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few> > 'redundant' packages, like M

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

2005-08-05 Thread Phill MV
To my experience the package requiring it would simply not install.  You could put an entry in /etc/portage/package.mask"man portage" for more info. gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Best way to block a given packages?

2005-08-05 Thread Phill MV
After a month worth of holidays, I return to my computer, sync, and type emerge -uva world. Scrolling through the several screen's worth of stuff I find a few 'redundant' packages, like Mozilla and Epiphany (I use Firefox). I use gnome, so I've always wounded up with these two packages on my syste

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-06 Thread Phill MV
I have just emerged gnome-menus and the did login dance. No dice - still an absent applications menu.  I had that. Are you sure some isn't still masked. The application menuchanged to a package on itself. gnome-base/gnome-menus ~x86--Ow Mun HengGentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM98% Microso

Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb GTK error

2005-06-06 Thread Phill MV
uh, what version? Upon which you usually follow up with, when did it stop working/when was your last sync/have you tried downgrading the package.On 06/06/05, Grant < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Does anyone know how to fix this: system4 ~ # gthumb(gthumb:30898): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:The

[gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-06 Thread Phill MV
A few hours ago I ran an emerge sync and an emerge -uva world.  A handful of gnome packages went to 2.10 and I logged in and out to see any differences and, well, my applications menu is missing. How do I regenerate that thing?

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-19 Thread Phill MV
> From your dmesg output, it looks like you have some kind of hardware > problem. Have you double checked that your cabling and hardware > configuration is good? Some things to check: > > 1. That the burner is jumpered correctly for 'master'. Done/ > 2. The IDE cable is not damaged (you might

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-16 Thread Phill MV
ack a server to upload things to, so sorry about the inconvinience) On 12/04/05, Damian KoÅkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phill MV wrote: > > Doing cdrecord -tao --dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 /pkg.iso as root (0,0,0 being my > > cdr/w drive) yields a few warnings like > > >

[gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-12 Thread Phill MV
So, I suddenly need to burn some cds in linux. k3b installed, I pop that little cd in the case and make me an iso of /pkg. I goes, "you burn me that baby" and watch it, well, not do anything. At all. The cd recorder drove up a bit then stopped making sound. The status window has been 'preparing