[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
mycat = mytbz2.getfile(CATEGORY) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.py, line 345, in getfile a=open(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

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

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] 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] 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] 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

[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

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] 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: [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] 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] 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] 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] 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

Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to your FEATURES in make.conf.That will work for new merges and updates.For current packages: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
RTFM if it's not *too* big, if I know the appropriate FM to R. ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
@gentoo.org mailing listAlthough it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept the connection. Any hints how to explore this? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Quo vadis nethack?

2006-04-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I just noticed that emerge sync is complaining that there are no packages for nethack. When and why did this venerable game get dropped?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] vim c syntax

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
or something...that'd be great.thanks.--# - dan lamotte -- lamotte {at} cs.umn.edu - ### - systems staff -- uofm -- cs department - ### fpr: 690F C162 4AE5 F85F FE94 88E5 D123 FBAC 0852 A280 ###-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

2006-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
PROTECTED] Hardware : 2 x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 1024MB RAM ... [and it goes on at some length to sync up just fine] Everything works well, but the top two lines make me wonder if I'm doing something wasteful. Clues, anyone?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

2006-04-22 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Every time I emerge sync I get pretty much the same first few lines: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189) Welcome to cockatoo.gentoo.orghttp

[gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
management features. I could clone them, but it would be a lot of work.-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare on Gentoo?

2006-05-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks to all who mentioned the ebuild. It hadn't occurred to me that there would be one. I'll try setting it up when I get back to that machine tonight. ++ kevinOn 4/30/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote on 04/30/06 06:51: I just got an evaluation copy of VMWare

[gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup. It's not TCP, I think, because connecting to apache is fast and my web pages bet served as usual. What happened to sshd???-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/4/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup.It's not TCP, I think, because connecting to apache is fast and my web pages

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/4/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/4/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. It used

[gentoo-user] USE flag oddity

2006-05-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
-debug +gnome* +ipv6 +ldap +mozcalendar -moznoxft +truetype -xinerama -xprint 0 kB [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 -debug +gnome* +ipv6 +java -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozsvg +truetype -xinerama -xprint 0 kB Call me confused... --Kevin O'Gorman

[gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
series. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.gentoo.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks. That worked for me. I knew there should be something simple that I didn't know yet. Sorry if my ranting annoyed anybody. ++ kevinOn 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I really need this thing.I want it to be stable.But sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
finding those bits requires knowing the magic search phrase that just happens to be defined only in the bit one needs to find. ++ kevin On 5/14/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 14 May 2006 17:15, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks.That worked for me.I knew there should

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/17/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:As things stand, I can start my virtual machine (the current one runsMinix) only as root. I can start vmware as a user, but any attempt to start my VM brings up a message about it not being able

[gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
otherwise (unless I could prevail on someone else to build the VM for me). On that point, what are the ethics of building VMs for others? What does VMware say about this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/20/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:I like to be one of the good guys. I'm not always sure what that means in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here. Opinions welcome. Flames somewhat less so. I

[gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
into something I can iterate over. Obviously, I use bash. ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/23/06, znx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/05/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anyone know a nice little idiom for de-duping a colon-list like PATH or MANPATH?Yeah this is something that constantly annoyed me, I forget where I found this (although I moved it to a function

[gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
a connection at all, and I can't make much sense out of the setup I have. First, I have both an /etc/init.d/sshd-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] SSH/SSH2 hosed, partially fixed, some rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
ssh and then do the scp backwards, however). Can anyone help me debug this? What else should I be looking at? --Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
IGNORE this posting. It was a fumble-fingers. Corrected and completed posting follows.On 5/25/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken. I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even

[gentoo-user] Ghost of vmware workstation haunts player?

2006-05-25 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/player/bin/vmware-config.pl. treat init.d # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks... ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/25/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 25, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken.I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I don't even remember how I set them up.They Just Ran

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/26/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 25, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Somewhere along the line, ssh and ssh2 have gotten conflated, confused or just downright broken.I have been running ssh daemon(s) for so long I

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
]: Closing connection to 64.166.164.53 Which covers a simple login-logout sequence.-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
]: Connection closed by 64.166.164.53 May 27 09:21:01 treat sshd(pam_unix)[2402]: session closed for user kevin May 27 09:21:01 treat sshd[2402]: Closing connection to 64.166.164.53 Which covers a simple login-logout sequence. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhDwell, it really looks from both ends like it's

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
.-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listThat does not work for ssh/scp sessions. I usually test $PS1 to tell if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an scp session, although .bashrc gets called. ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing Opera 8.54

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
course of things. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
subshell echo You may want to run ssh-add. fi fi -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/28/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 28, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/27/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That does not work for ssh/scp sessions.I usually test $PS1 to tell if it's really a shell -- the variable does not even exist for an scp session

Re: [gentoo-user] Email-based games

2006-05-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
who've added to the collection. Enjoy! ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH hosed, only rubble remains

2006-05-30 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] KAlarm now broken -- suffers many SIGFPE alarms

2006-06-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
with this? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] KAlarm now broken -- suffers many SIGFPE alarms

2006-06-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/8/06, Jesse Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It doesn't die.And it usually doesn't do it when I'm around, but when I come back to my system in the morning there are usually 200 or so crash dialogs waiting for me, all indicating the application suffered a SIGFPE (floating

Re: [gentoo-user] KAlarm now broken -- suffers many SIGFPE alarms

2006-06-09 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Yep, that did it. Kalarm is now happy and behaving itself.Thanks, Jesse.++ kevinOn 6/8/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/8/06, Jesse Hannah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: It doesn't die.And it usually doesn't do it when I'm around, but when I come back to my system

[gentoo-user] kalarm still broken -- revdep-rebuild fails; need mass unmerge of old KDE things

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
to me likea magnet for operator error (not to mention confusion) and could use some attention. /more complainingAnyway, I could use some more help diagnosing problems with Kalarm,and in figuring out how to ditch old slotted packages.++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/kdepim-3.5.2-r2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkcal-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2)I find it especially charming that libkdepim is blocking kdepim, both being of the 3.5 flavor.Can anyone tell me where to turn?-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/11/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 12 June 2006 3:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Once again... portage is mad at me, I guess...unless I'm not alone kdepim is required by KDE: treat ~ # equery --nocolor depends kdepim-3.5.2-r2 [ Searching for packages depending

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/11/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 12 June 2006 3:17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Once again... portage is mad at me, I guess...unless I'm not alone kdepim is required by KDE: treat ~ # equery --nocolor depends

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
a bug).++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-12 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/11/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: That sounds interesting, but I have no idea what to do about it. I think once upon a time, when I was first installing gentoo, I opted for KDE.I haven't done a thing about it since KDE 3.2

Re: [gentoo-user] A gentoo kind of dependency heck

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:12:48 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I first guess is to unmerge everything KDE, but even then, I'm not quite sureNot everything KDE, leave arts and any other dependencies what I should emerge in its place.kde-meta?And what

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
use it? One way out just occurred to me: clear a partition to install that tar of the root partition, and use it to quickpkg a copy of that old glib. Is there any simpler way? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
at the packages makes me think they're plain tar archives with no metadata. How do I get rid of them when I'm done with them? Or must I install them using some tool that creates the metadata? ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I am partly to blame, of course.I got frustrated with older ebuilds that werecausing some of the dependency trouble, and got carried away with emerge --prune, which I guess is just as broken

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix a problem I'm having.These are ones that have been made for my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:00:20 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Nope.I checked just for FLAGS and got nothing.What aboutemerge --info | grep FLAG--Neil BothwickHeisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The location of all objects cannot be known

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something else that might give me some more ideas: find /usr/local/portage /etc/portage That was a bit more productive:Yeah, but I still don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:40:47 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I may have a need to install one or more binary packages to fix a problem I'm having.These are ones that have been made for my system during normal emerges, but have since been pruned from

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something about this is just not clicking with me.I restored my backup to an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of the packages I've been trying to re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1 -ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no configure: error: installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start digging. It completed just fine. Ok, do this and send me the result. # emerge --debug =dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 ~/glib-merge.txt 21 -Richard PS. Please post further replies in plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:42:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 6/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/14/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. Results attached. Sorry about the HTML. I hadn't noticed it was turned on. And I generally oppose HTML mail. Hmm, the problem first shows up here: + append-ldflags -ldl + [[ -z

[gentoo-user] Apache emerge stumbles on LDAP; should I care?

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
vaguely understand that LDAP has to do with directory searches, but I don't know why I should care about that in general, or about it in reference to apache. So what do I need to know about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Strident message from mysql on emerge

2006-09-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
?) of packages I have installed. I'd like them to be a bit more helpful, and perhaps careful to state what the problem actually is, or might be. Courteous wouldn't be a bad idea either. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
unknown. How do I get evolution to stop nagging me about this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution mail reader won't give up

2006-10-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/4/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:01 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I sent a mail with a bad address, and it continues to haunt me. I can't figure out a way to get evolution to just abandon it. Whenever I quit, it reminds me that it has unsent mail

[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
); if (isprint(i)) printf( print); if (ispunct(i)) punctf( punct); if (isspace(i)) printf( space); if (isupper(i)) printf( upper); if (isxdigit(i)) printf( xdigit); printf(\n); } return 0; } -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:10, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails': Why is it that using some of the macros from ctype.h fails to compile? You

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/5/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 04:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: gcc -Wall ctype.c -o ctype I get ctype.c:21: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isblank' $ gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall ctype.c -o ctype -- Bo Andresen Why would this need a GNU

[gentoo-user] Emerge -aDvu world stopped by media-sound/xmms

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8 [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-video/mplayer !!! Depgraph creation failed. treat portage # -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

2006-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
8a 77 ec-f5 77 6f 48 1e df 00 ba uuid.bios = 56 4d 40 49 f2 95 6a cc-99 15 43 3f c6 d5 f3 35 ethernet0.generatedAddress = 00:0c:29:d5:f3:35 ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = 0 ide1:0.startConnected = FALSE ide1:0.autodetect = TRUE checkpoint.vmState = tools.remindInstall = TRUE -- Kevin

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
, let alone version, they belong to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts? Should I just delete them anyway? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gcc complains about TLS and errno; I baffled

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
reference in /tmp/cc6urgct.o /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Bad value But when I try to look up TLS, all I get is a bunch of stuff about a server-to-server email security protocol. What is it talking about here, and where can I find out about it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo

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