Re: [gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont

2009-10-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:07 +0200 Fab wrote: > On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:06:43 -0400 > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I can certainly add libXfont to /etc/portage/package.keywords, but I >> find it strange that a stable package (xorg-server) requires a testing >> version of a

[gentoo-user] stable xorg-server seems to require testing libXfont

2009-10-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 is now stable on x86. I see the following in the ebuild RDEPEND="hal? ( sys-apps/hal ) tslib? ( >=x11-libs/tslib-1.0 x11-proto/xcalibrateproto ) dev-libs/openssl >=x11-libs/libXfont-1.4.0 I believe this says that libXfont >= 1.4.0 must be present.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an Apache configuration guide for gentoo?

2009-10-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:04:13 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Sonntag 04 Oktober 2009 08:28:16 schrieb David Juhl: >> > so if it is read only why can't I read? >> > You don't have permission to access /~david16/ on this server >> >> Does the user that run

[gentoo-user] update-desktop-database gives ... lacks MimeType

2009-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My system is running fine as far as I can tell, but reading a msg in this group raised my curiosity about update-desktop-database. When I do I get dozens of lines of applications lacking a MimeType key. Here are the first few. allan gottlieb # update-desktop-database --verbose Search path is

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile Gentoo Environemnet

2009-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:29:46 + Nick Khamis wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > what emerge parameters recompiles everything in my gentoo environment afer > changing use flags > > emerge --update --deep --*newuse* world? I personally use emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y --ask --deep --tree -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:33:55 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do > is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab > looked ok. > > I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right > now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as > expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my > first suspicio

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible > using gnome so I figures what the heck. If you are using gnome (and hence gdm not xdm) then trying to login as root from the gui results in a dialog box asking you

Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:29 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start > gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no > direcotry message when I log in using console. Well does the user have an accessible home

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working

2009-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 Nick Khamis wrote: > When I do a: > > rc-update add xdm default > > Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought > I know its the right username password. Not sure what you mean by "gentoo" in the last sentence. Perhaps you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "flip video" on gentoo

2009-08-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:12:53 -0400 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I have received a "flip video, ultra series (records 60 minutes)" >> digital camcorder for a present. >> >> This works fine on windows, but I wo

[gentoo-user] "flip video" on gentoo

2009-08-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have received a "flip video, ultra series (records 60 minutes)" digital camcorder for a present. This works fine on windows, but I would naturally much prefer to use gentoo. The windows software can presumably do a bunch of stuff but I would be very happy to simply * Copy video from the camera

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:52:31 -0700 Keith Dart wrote: > === On Fri, 08/21, Beau Henderson wrote: === >> Not if your @stable. > > === > > But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. Something must have been funny. My system is stable and it did ask for firefox 3.5 (as I

[gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have had both epiphany and firefox on my machine for quite a while, but the latest stable of each are now "incompatible". Specifically they require incompatible versions of xulrunner. Is there a reason why epiphany cannot use xulrunner-1.9-1? thanks, allan =

[gentoo-user] package for the scheme programming language (Solved)

2009-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:44:53 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > What (preferably gentoo stable on amd64) package do you recommend for > the scheme programming language? > > I would prefer one that plays nicely within emacs. I tried dev-scheme/scheme48. It works well with emacs (read se

Re: [gentoo-user] package for the scheme programming language

2009-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:37:28 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: >> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> What (preferably gentoo stable on amd64) package do you recommend for >> the scheme programming language? >> >> I would prefer one that plays nicely within emacs. > >

[gentoo-user] package for the scheme programming language

2009-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
What (preferably gentoo stable on amd64) package do you recommend for the scheme programming language? I would prefer one that plays nicely within emacs. thanks, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 01 May 2009 17:25:14 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. >> On the laptop all is well. >> On the desktop playback is fine, but recordi

[gentoo-user] trouble with alsa sound

2009-05-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have two machines desktop (x86_64) and laptop (i686), both with HDA Intel. On the laptop all is well. On the desktop playback is fine, but recording is not, e.g., when using skype my son cannot hear me, but I can hear him. On the (working) laptop alsa mixer shows two (stereo) volumes, capture an

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. >>> When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (th

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:28:26 +0200 Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:29:09 -0400 > schrieb Allan Gottlieb : > >> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> > For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. > When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two), > the "print" button is greyed out. With "print to file", the button is > li

[gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK

2009-04-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two), the "print" button is greyed out. With "print to file", the button is live and the pdf file is successfully created I can print via lpr. If, in firefox, I goto localhost:631

Re: [gentoo-user] Has RgbPath gone away in new xorg?

2009-04-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:34 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I have just emerged the new xorg after reading many of the posts here, >> which were quite helpful. >> >> I have USE=-hal and left my xorg.conf alone &g

[gentoo-user] Has RgbPath gone away in new xorg?

2009-04-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have just emerged the new xorg after reading many of the posts here, which were quite helpful. I have USE=-hal and left my xorg.conf alone (except for adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "false") I received an error msg stating that RgbPath was invalid in the Files section. I commented it out and

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:36:24 -0400 Eric Martin wrote: > Do you have any nfs mounts? I find that I have problems shutting down > as well and I suspect it's because I'm turning off eth0 before > unmounting my shares. I need to do more research though so I can back > this up. Yes I have an nsf mo

[gentoo-user] unable to shutdown or halt cleanly (console-kit and esd not killed)

2009-04-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Often (now, perhaps always) when I try to halt using either halt from the command line or the shutdown option from the gnome dialog box at the welcome screen the effort fails. If I try to shutdown from gnome, the shutdown hangs at the unmounting file systems. I then tried shutdown now fr

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

2009-03-30 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you willie, dale, and paul for your suggestions. allan

[gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

2009-03-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge. My current list follows. Thanks in advance for any help. allan allan gottlieb # eix

Re: [gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon

2009-03-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:32:44 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to > 2.24. > > Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). > This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, > I can ge

[gentoo-user] failure of gnome-settings-daemon

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light became stable recently on x86 and I have now upgraded to 2.24. Unfortunately gnome-settings-daemon fails (silently). This prevents my normal login. Wnen using the gnome failsafe login, I can get in and work, but whenever I try system>preferences>appearance I get a dialog box saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: are blocks now "OK" with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:01 -0400 ABCD wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced >> a long list of packages to merge. Fine. >> >> At the end it says >> >> Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades,

[gentoo-user] are blocks now "OK" with portage-2.1.6.7 ?

2009-03-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced a long list of packages to merge. Fine. At the end it says Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB Conflict: 3 blocks Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates

Re: [gentoo-user] apparent error in emerge dependencies

2009-03-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:45:18 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > A strange error occurred which seems to suggest emerge didn't get > dependencies right. > > I executed my normal > > emerge --ask --deep --tree --verbose --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world > > and was

[gentoo-user] apparent error in emerge dependencies

2009-03-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
A strange error occurred which seems to suggest emerge didn't get dependencies right. I executed my normal emerge --ask --deep --tree --verbose --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world and was pleased to see that gnome v24 had gone stable on amd64. However the massive build failed on dev-python

Re: [gentoo-user] A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:49:36 +0100 KH wrote: > Peter Humphrey schrieb: >> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. >> >> Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions needed checks >> on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to 23, 24, 25 and 26 >> mounts. (I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:27:17 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>>> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A little light relief from endless problems

2009-03-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:57:30 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> As it's Sunday, here's an odd little thing. >> >> Not long ago, while booting this machine, four ext3 partitions >> needed checks on remount count reaching zero. They had been set to >> 23, 24, 25 and 26 mounts

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is xulrunner-bin required for acroread in amd64 (xulrunner not OK)

2009-02-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:02:03 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:47:51 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> But why are the -bin packages good and the compile-from-source not good? > > Because the -bin package is 32-bit, like acroread itself. Thank you, I understand now. allan

[gentoo-user] Why is xulrunner-bin required for acroread in amd64 (xulrunner not OK)

2009-02-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have xulrunner installed on my x86 and amd64 machines. When I tried to install acroread on the amd64, it wanted to pull in xulrunner-bin. Sure enough the ebuild contains RDEPEND="media-libs/fontconfig cups? ( net-print/cups ) x86? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0 l

Re: [gentoo-user] build failure for sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (no xregex.h)

2009-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:42:07 -0300 Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > Allan Gottlieb escreveu: >> I just did >> >> emerge --deep --verbose --tree --ask --update --newuse world >> >> The first package to be rebuilt was libstdc++ >> >> The failure was >> >&

[gentoo-user] build failure for sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 (no xregex.h)

2009-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just did emerge --deep --verbose --tree --ask --update --newuse world The first package to be rebuilt was libstdc++ The failure was creating config.h make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/a/portage/tmp/portage/sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6/work/gcc-3.3.6/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libiberty' if [ x"-fpic"

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
reference is not to top post. That is, we prefer to have replies after (or interspersed with) the original, not before it. > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 1

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)--Solved ??

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:46:37 -0500 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon > wrote: > >> On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:40:42 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 01:50:38 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. >> >> For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains >>   unable to open docume

[gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains unable to open document unhandled mime type Sometimes the mime type is application/text other times it is application/octet-stream. But the file is definitely a pdf. For example

Re: [gentoo-user] evince won't open PDFs

2009-01-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
servers is currently bad I just now remerged them and did the suggested revdep-rebuild, which as expected rebuilt nothing. Everything worked fine; in particular, evince file.pdf worked. Perhaps you should remerge them in case one of yours is corrupted. Here is the beginning of my emerge show

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

2009-01-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:39:13 + Stroller wrote: > On 19 Jan 2009, at 16:59, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> ... >>> Someone should file a bug to have the message changed to something >>> clearer. >> >> I'd be happy to do that. Is the following correct? >> >> The UI and rendering libraries that wer

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:37:21 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:57:40 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> > It's because you're trying to emerge it with the firefox USE flag. >> > Remove that from make.conf and use xulrunner instead. >

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:00:41 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:19:04 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >> So, I interpret this as the mplayer plugin not being available for >> firefox 3.0, which is why it's pulling in the 2.0 stream. So, my best >> solution is probably just to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.

2008-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:40:15 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2008 02:28:26 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I think that is a little harsh.  I dislike html mail, never send it, >> and know perfectly well that this group is for text, bottom-posted mail. > > It

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.

2008-12-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:58:30 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Rightee-o boys and girls, this is the point where the pretty girl from candid > camera reveals that you are all suckers and points to the hidden camera > behind the mirror: > > Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and compl

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-10 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:00:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joerg believes that cdrkit is not as good as cdrtools (I have used only >> cdrtools and it works well for me). > > "Believes" i

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:44:21 -0500 Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > So yo

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing depclean output

2008-12-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:32:24 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emerge --pretend --depclean > > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is > *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from > *** WAR

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping a CD to mp3 formate (sound-juicer) SOLVED

2008-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:35:33 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sound-juicer successfully rips CDs to .ogg files, which are successfully > played by totem. > > I would like to produce .mp3 audio for some instead of .ogg. > > SJ (sound-juicer) lists m

[gentoo-user] Ripping a CD to mp3 formate (sound-juicer)

2008-11-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have used gentoo for a while, but am new to audio. Sound-juicer successfully rips CDs to .ogg files, which are successfully played by totem. I would like to produce .mp3 audio for some instead of .ogg. SJ (sound-juicer) lists mp3 in its "edit profiles..." option but does not include it in the

Re: [gentoo-user] tools currently available for update of etc files after updates

2008-11-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:05:22 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 17:14:03 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> On Freitag 14 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: >> > I remember discussion of one or more fairly new tools designed to ease >> > the update of etc

Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos use flag

2008-11-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:47:54 +0200 Eray Aslan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08.11.2008 17:27, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Today's emerge --ask --verbose --deep --tree --newuse --update world >> turned up a bunch of reinstalls due to -kerberos*. >> >> I

[gentoo-user] kerberos use flag

2008-11-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Today's emerge --ask --verbose --deep --tree --newuse --update world turned up a bunch of reinstalls due to -kerberos*. I have not changed make.conf. Did some profile change? Output from emerge --info is below. thanks, allan allan gottlieb # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:26 -0500 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others > amd64. All are gentoo. > > The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for > x86. I realize it will b

[gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am hoping that 1. I can use it to install either amd64 or x86 gentoo 2. I can use

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:43:38 -0400 James Homuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: October 28, 2008 10:35 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix > > Are there any issues with all

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:38:34 -0400 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> [nomerge ] app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r1 USE="doc ipv6 -krb4 -tcl" > > Use the ~ version of mit-krb5, any v

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:38 + Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Pielmeier >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have unmerged all the files involved in the blockage allan Mail # emerge --ask --unmerge e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs ss com_err >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs' to unmerge. --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs-libs' to unmerge. --- Cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:24 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 >> "James Homuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were >>> waiting fo

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > -Original Message----- >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh troubl

[gentoo-user] ssh trouble

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble. The client is allan. The server is ajglap. >From the client (gnome-terminal) I can run ssh as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh ajglap Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:50:02 EDT 2008 from allan on ssh Last login: Tue Oct 2

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:20:25 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On my x86 system there is -D USERDIR. > > And what's on your /etc/conf.d/apache2 ? Bingo, thanks. I dealt with /etc/apache2. My error was forgetting that there was in addition /etc/conf.d/apache2. thanks again,

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Sorry for the aborted send a few minutes ago. For some reason I am not getting USERDIR on amd64. Attached below is the output of /etc/init.d/apache2 configdump The trouble is apparently early in the output /usr/sbin/apache2 started with '-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D MANUAL -D SSL -D

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason I don't get USERDIR working on my amd64 box. Below is attached the output from /etc/init.d/apache2 dumpconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
the linux dev ml. > > ( If otherwise, please do unset my fail bit i just assigned on myself ) Yes, you misread my post. I said "that list" when I had just discussed the kernel list. allan gottlieb

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:33:11 +0100 David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:50:42 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Rather, "It is less objectionable for people who have accomplished a >> very great deal and have greatly improved the comput

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:47:57 +0100 David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:39:12 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> 1. You are not linus. > > "It's OK for people I like to do this, but not people I don't like"? Rather, &quo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:33:27 +0100 David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:13:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:15:38 +0100, David Leverton wrote: >> > > Because your attitude was abrasive and antagonistic. >> > >> > I trust these people won't be

A plea for calm (was: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...)

2008-09-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am a delighted gentoo user who neither uses plaudis nor has any complaint with it or its developers. I also don't use kde, but have no complaint with it or its developers. I wonder if we could end this plaudis argument, as I don't see how the argument can actually help anyone. thanks, allan

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 + Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Daniel, > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote: > >> > However looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most >> > noticeable when running emerge. It is very also noticeable run

Re: [gentoo-user] Recall info request on grub problem

2008-09-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:28:39 -0500 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 20:28 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Michael Sullivan wrote: >> > Awhile back there was a thread about grub working but the menu not >> > showing up, and in that thread there was a setting suggested, some

Re: [gentoo-user] Query: any good venue for sample lex&yacc or flex&bison programs

2008-09-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:34 +0200 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 3 September 2008, 04:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Thanks, I've created a Google Group, and added these links to a page >> in it. Check out http://groups.google.com/group/compilerSamples > > I see that you

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update

2008-08-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:50:38 -0700 Joshua D Doll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I was away for two weeks and am not trying to do an --update world. >> >> Gnome 2.22 has gone stable so there are a number of pkgs to emerge and >> a few

[gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update

2008-08-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
sions/slot: 2.22.2-r1 Recommendation: Upgrade Homepage:http://gnome.org/projects/totem/ Description: Media player for GNOME License: GPL-2 LGPL-2 Found 2 matches. allan gottlieb # I tried just merging totem (w and w/o deep) and again receive

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't libxslt updated by emerge world?

2008-07-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:35:29 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> But there is: >>> >>> # emerge -pv libxslt >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24 [1.1.20] USE="crypt python >>> -de

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater

2008-07-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:04 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.07.08 03:20]: >> I did some updates today. "emerge --sync" and updated world on my >> "production machine". Things went OK, including running python-updater. >> Then I scp'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting usb problem

2008-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Norman Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have problem regarding mounting my usb thumbdrive. I have tried to > add this line to /etc/fstab: > > echo "/dev/usb /mnt/usb auto noauto,rw,user" >>/etc/fstab Do you have a "file" called /dev/usb ? On my system

[gentoo-user] playing audio discs

2008-07-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am a novice with respect to sound. Nearly everything works. totem plays CDs system sounds are OK The trouble is that the cd player, gnome-cd part of gnome-media, says there is no disc in the drive (there is only one drive). I don't have many USE flags (in particular ogg, wavpack, and vorbi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:45 -0700 jalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy > to do. > > (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get > home if you still need to know). > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Josep

Re: [gentoo-user] discarding sources of old kernels

2008-07-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:08:15 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked. > They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19* > > Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if > I disc

[gentoo-user] discarding sources of old kernels

2008-07-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I keep a few old kernel binaries around that I know have worked. They are not ancient; the oldest is 2.6.19* Am I correct in believing that I can run these backup kernels even if I discard the corresponding sources. I am fairly sure that I need keep only the contents of /lib/modules/ and can disc

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound

2008-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
cd drive (actually DVD+-RW) does work. If I place a data disk in, I can mount it. thanks for your help, allan > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome >> system. &

[gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound

2008-07-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome system. I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. >From the main (foot) menu, system --> preference --> sound produces a dialog box with three tabs. The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I pres

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: > >> > Grub hangs if that's the case. > >> I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path >> wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unre

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:30:12 -0400 Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for this thread. I had a bunch of gibberish on the screen, > too, after the most recent emerge and figured it was grub but didn't > know why. Strangely, the splash image was missing from /boot/grub - > is it not suppose

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add >> >> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700 Joshua D Doll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: >> >> >>> splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even >>> loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashim

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:33:21 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 20:04]: >> The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add >> >> splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> to

[gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem: SOLVED

2008-07-07 Thread Allan Gottlieb
(Summary: I had a problem with installing grub into the MBR. Two thoughtful replies set me straight) At Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> grub> find /boot/grub/st

[gentoo-user] Re: another grub problem

2008-07-06 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the > > *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, >

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