On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop
working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the
previous, working python
On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop
working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
that right now (because emerge won't work,
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know I
was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me.
Thanks,
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
John J. Foster writes:
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know
I
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:18:08PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
John J. Foster writes:
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out
unmasking hard
masked package.
Question 3
Sould I expect x11 radeon driver with built in kernel dri to be
as good as fglrx? Direct rendering was running (glxinfo).
Thanks. Hope this is clear
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-Original Message-
From: Jonas de Buhr [mailto:jonas.de.b...@gmx.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:35 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user
as that which was downloaded
from the mirror?
I guess what I'm getting at is how can I be sure I can trust a mirror?
Thank you very much in advance for any insight provided,
-john
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Thanks.
Do you know if someone makes a change to a copy of apache hosted on a public
mirror, will the sync between the servers determine that it's corrupted (via
'bad' checksum) on the public side and replace it?
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-Original Message-
From: Albert W. Hopkins [mailto:mar
understand
it all correctly, it appears there used to be a faad use flag to
automatically pull it in back in 2003-2004, but then in 2007, there was
a bug report that caused them to remove it. See
http://gentoo-portage.com/media-sound/rhythmbox/ChangeLog and
http://bugs.gentoo.org/159538.
John Moe
:
LABEL=USBSTICK/media/usbstick autouser,noauto 0 0
LABEL=USBstorage /media/usbstorage ntfs-3g user,noauto 0 0
Then I just type mount /media/usbstick and use it as normal.
John Moe
John Moe
Arttu V. wrote:
On 2/22/10, John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
From the looks of things, it's trying to install a file directly to the
filesystem outside the /var/tmp sandbox. I believe this is a bug that
needs reporting, but before I did that, I thought I'd check to be sure
it wasn't something I was doing wrong. Can can someone more
knowledgeable than me advise?
I've attached emerge --info and the full build log file for reference.
John Moe
Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1,
2.6.31-gentoo-r6 i686
? If not, maybe
it's not making it to the list server?
You could try sending to gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org and see what
options are available to you there.
John Moe
of the 2100 or the 2200 modules; once you select Wireless LAN
(IEEE 802.11) a new slew of options should come up, including the Intel
Wireless Wifi option, and in there you should find your wireless card.
John Moe
have no localization settings via KDE or Gnome or such; that may
affect things for you?
John Moe
, gzip it; text files generally
get really good compression.
Just my $0.02.
John Moe
. Go to Google (or your favourite search engine)
2. Search for gentoo license mask
3. Follow instructions from several previous threads
John Moe
Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2010/1/18 walt w41...@gmail.com:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm
pk wrote:
John H. Moe wrote:
play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and
AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem:
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO).
Not sure if this is the solution
John H. Moe wrote:
pk wrote:
John H. Moe wrote:
play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and
AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem:
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO
? Any info (especially current info) that might help would be welcome.
John Moe
Seeing if there is plan in place to man a booth and, if not, get
interest in manning one.
(/usr/share/doc/nvidia-drivers-185.18.36/README.bz2)
You may have to substitute your nvidia-drivers version number for the
185.18.36 in my path, or the 190.53 in Alan's path?
John H. Moe
Linux
:-P
John Moe
On 12/15/2009 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
It seems to me that this mouse sends two button events for some of the
physical buttons. For example moving the wheel to the left reports
button press 13
button press 6
button release 6
button release 13
Similar results for the
Darik's Boot and Nuke is a good projects for wiping.
http://www.dban.org/
On 12/16/2009 10:49 AM, Grant wrote:
I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and
install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any
more). I've got a bootable USB key that will
Roger Mason wrote:
Hello John Walt,
Thanks for the responses. Here is the information you asked for.
John Lowry johnlo...@gmail.com writes:
What is the contents of your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
# PCI device 0x10b7:0x9200 (3c59x)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address
I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder-compat USE
flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi
installed at the same time, yet I am getting blocked packages error
messages. Is this impossible to pull off?
Jarry wrote:
220 mail.somemydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.0/8.14.0; Tue, 10 Nov 2009
19:57:31 GMT
HELO
501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address
Q1: Why on my HELO sendmail does not respond with 250 OK?
The hostname in the HELO message needs to be included. It does not
unnecessarily need
it or not. :-) Seems to be working still...
John Moe
(and a few
by ~x86 keyword as well), not by package.mask.
John H. Moe
Harry Putnam wrote:
John H. Moe john...@optusnet.com.au writes:
I stopped using that option in my systems, as there is now a AHCI SATA
option to use instead. It appears CONFIG_ATA_SFF (which CONFIG_ATA_PIIX
requires) is deprecated. From the help on it:
Do you notice some kind
and simple with
something like: ATA Mode: AHCI or IDE Emulation. Others just ask if you
want ATA Native mode, which seems to be AHCI.
HTH
John Moe
On 10/17/2009 07:55 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:
In my case(asus 900a), whether I use startx at the boot prompt or let
xdm start by default, the X window starts to open and I see a glimpse
of the desktop but then the screen goes black and flickers and just
the outline of the mouse cursor is
/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2)
under Booting the Installation CD, as well as the options listing on
the boot screen of the install CD. Just list the modules that are
causing problems.
John Moe
, but I'll
try that now. Actually, I'll unmerge all three and re-emerge them again.
Are there any others that I'm missing? I can't think of any other
packages that would apply; at least, not that I specified.
John Moe
John Moe wrote:
daid kahl wrote:
I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the
wireless to work correctly. My wireless is making an association with
my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I
can't even ping my AP. TCP/IP
igwasm wrote:
- Original Message - From: John Moe john...@optushome.com.au
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation gentoo problem.
Igor Spiridonov wrote:
Hi. I tryed install gentoo 10.0
-menu and see if that fixes things up.
Also, at a guess, the two codecs are going to be the Conexant codec
for the sound card, and the SigmaTel for the modem. But for the ATI
HDMI, I'm used to seeing that referring to video cards and monitors; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi.
HTH
John Moe
been able to find an example of on the FVWM forums,
which are quite helpful.
From what I've read, you can also use FVWM-Themes to try and get
a jump start with some possible configs, but I've never used them, so I
can't comment on their worth or helpfulness
HTH
John Moe
.
John Moe
Stroller wrote:
On 11 Sep 2009, at 05:17, John H. Moe wrote:
Stroller wrote:
On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout
when trying to get a lease -- it says broadcasting for a lease and
times
out
I'm
Hey Willie - a 67 line sig ?
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on Sunday 08/02/2009 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote
On Sunday 02 August 2009 00:59:22 John covici wrote:
Hi. On my latest update attempt, I get the following message: !!! All
ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-fs/udev-145[extras] have been
masked.
!!! One
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 04:45:46 -0400, John covici wrote:
run the emerge with the -t option to see what is pulling in
udev-
I get the same thing if I emerge udev145, so its not unique to 999.
That's because
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:31:41 -0400, John covici wrote:
(dependency required by sys-apps/devicekit-power-010 [ebuild])
(dependency required by
gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.26.3 [ebuild])
Neither
on Sunday 08/02/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 14:53:48 -0400, John covici wrote:
I am using the gnome overlay from layman.
It might have been helpful to menyion that :(
If I comment out the source line for layman in /etc/make.conf I get
# | |
client amanda amdump
server amanda amdump
client root amindexd amidxtaped
I used the fqdn for the client and server names in the above files.
John Blinka
not resolved.
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for the very long delay in replying. My backup machine's root
partition disk started
failing, and it has taken me a long time to rebuild things.)
John
Please can you recommend a email virus scanner.
I am a little unsure about all the combinations available. I wish to
scan incoming email on my home desktop. I currently use Claws Mail and
was looking for the simplest option.
Many Thanks
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichingerli...@xunil.at wrote:
Try amoldrecover for a start ...
From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a
=2.5 client from
a 2.5 server. My server and clients are all =2.6. Am I misunderstanding?
John
enlightening. Neither does
/var/amanda/my_host/log.*
Thanks for any ideas on how to debug this!
John Blinka
it matter which use flags it was
compiled with?
I wonder if you say -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you
are turning off color and progress indications?
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:16:51 -0400, John P. Burkett wrote:
The response included the following lines:
* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 2.6.20
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote:
At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date
but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed that
the computer would not print to my local printer. Using the CUPS menu
did
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 15:47:44 John P. Burkett wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 24 June 2009 02:39:33 John P. Burkett wrote:
At that point I had the impression that the machine was not up-to-date
but nonetheless functional. However, the next morning I noticed
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:39 PM, John P. Burkettburk...@uri.edu wrote:
!!! Couldn't download 'cryptsetup-1.0.6.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
I don't know why your downloads are failing or the rest of your
problems, but you can download cryptsetup manually from here:
http
revealed
nothing.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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to diagnose and fix the
above noted problems with cryptsetup, printer, mouse, and X.
John
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on Saturday 06/20/2009 Ian Lee(i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk) wrote
John covici wrote:
Hi. I have a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and for the life of me, I
can't get uvesafb to work. There are no messages, I just get the 25
lines by 80 column screen. I emerged clib, and v86d and made sure
that starts as follows::
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error Font `10x20' is not defined)
modify-frame-parameters(#frame em...@microway 0xf41280 ((font .
10x20)))
set-default-font(10x20)
eval-buffer(#buffer *load* nil /home/john/.emacs nil t) ;
Reading at buffer position 3345
load-with-code
rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes:
Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated.
I had the same problem but was able to view from an old backup of var
in a previous OS install what was installed.
It showed 38 packages I'd also
or fix?
Thanks in advance for any good ideas.
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. Assume I am missing
something in kernel config but everything else works ok.
Init 0 does nothing either so maybe there is a clue there
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on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote
* John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]:
Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I
shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into
a state where
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.aus...@gmail.com) wrote
2009/6/2 John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote
* John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]:
Hi. I am running unstable gentoo
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote:
The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the
--no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the
(non
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote:
The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add
command to prevent grub from probing the
(non-existing) floppy drives. My machine has a floppy drive. Should I
omit the --no-floppy option and just do grub-install /dev/sda ?
-John
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know what is happening, or should I file a bug?
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you what you want to do with your audio cd, if
that is not there I was getting a message about not being able to
mount the cd.
Hope that helps.
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wrong in any of this, but the easiest thing
would be to get a version of mailman compatible with 2.6.
Thanks in advance for any ideas on this problem.
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on Wednesday 05/06/2009 David Relson(rel...@osagesoftware.com) wrote
On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400
John covici wrote:
Hi. I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this
would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman compatible
with 2.6 -- is there any
on Wednesday 05/06/2009 Neil Bothwick(n...@digimed.co.uk) wrote
On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400, John covici wrote:
Hi. I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this
would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman compatible
with 2.6 -- is there any
005: Multitasking attempted - System confused
Thanks much -- that will fix things up just fine.
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on Monday 05/04/2009 Mick(michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote
On Monday 04 May 2009, John covici wrote:
on Monday 05/04/2009 Philipp Riegger(li...@anderedomain.de) wrote
You'd be amazed how much junk collects in /var/log/portage over time
Or in /var/log. Logrotate helps
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to successfully emerge -D -uav world would be much
appreciated.
G'day John,
I had the problem on a 32 bit machine and just removed the offending
file:
rm /usr/lib/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
I then proceeded with the emerge of the ati-driver. It's discussed here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org
Alex Schuster wrote:
John P. Burkett writes:
Doing PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage emerge -D -uav world on my amd64
machine elicits a response that ends as follows:
[...]
* Detected file collision(s):
*
* /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
*
* Searching all installed
emake failed
* The die message:
* emake failed
I'd be grateful for suggestions about how to fix the problem.
John
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:13:19 John P. Burkett wrote:
glConsole.cc:50:23: error: FTGL/FTGL.h: No such file or directory
In file included from glConsole.cc:51:
/usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:29:5: warning: #warning This header
is deprecated. Please use FTGL/ftgl.h
Dale wrote:
John P. Burkett wrote:
Alan,
Thank you very much for your diagnosis and suggestion. Having no
experience downgrading packages, I'm not certain how to implement the
proposal to downgrade ftgl. The approach I tried is the following:
I created a /usr/portage/package.mask file
/extensions/libglx.so
gets the following response:
x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
Suggestions for how to successfully emerge -D -uav world would be much
appreciated.
John
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find out how to emulate a mouse click that way.
HTH comments welcome.
Thank you, Philip. Your suggestions worked perfectly for me on an amd64
machine.
John
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be added?
2. How should the addition be made?
John
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Nick Fortino wrote:
John P. Burkett wrote:
Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response
the included the following lines:
* All prepared. Starting rebuild
emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0
gnome-base/gnome-panel:0
kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5
mail-client/-MERGING-evolution
ABCD wrote:
John P. Burkett wrote:
Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response
the included the following lines:
* All prepared. Starting rebuild
emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0
gnome-base/gnome-panel:0
kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5
mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0
to bypass gegl when doing emerge -D -uav world.
John
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again redid revdep-rebuild,
with the same results.
Suggestions for how to successfully run revdep-rebuild would be most
welcome. I'm willing to sacrifice evolution if that would help.
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on Monday 03/30/2009 Daniel Pielmeier(daniel.pielme...@googlemail.com) wrote
2009/3/30 John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com:
Hi. Several months ago, during an update, I converted to baselayout2
-- openrt, etc. This has caused a couple of annoying problems. When
I shutdown the computer
on Monday 03/30/2009 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckin...@gmail.com) wrote
On Monday 30 March 2009 12:33:48 Dale wrote:
John covici wrote:
The other problem is that once in a while a service dies -- named did
this -- and it would not let me stop the service and when I tried to
restart I
already stopped?
Any assistance on these would be appreciated.
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