Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw
support to the iso9660 driver ;-)
--- "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he
> can mount it, copy it
> somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the
> changes.
>
> On Fri, 20 May 20
--- cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pardon the slightly naive question.
>
> I would like to study the c and cpp source on the
> packages I am emerging. I
> *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I
> *think* as I was looking
> in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find
> the
--- Sad Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and
> copy the files. I
> have added my file and created a new iso.
>
> My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have
> followed the link
> posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a
> bootable cd doe
--- rob3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice
> command. But it doesn't
> work as a user. I keeps sending the error message
> that the "setup is
> aborted". Who knows what this means, but its
> irritating, having to go
> back in to user directory and chownin
--- cfk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE,
> than you very much. Now is
> the time to understand how menus are added to the
> task bar.
>
> I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just
> emerged are added to the
> menu. I know how to create a task
--- "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have purchased a new MB and processor. I will be
> transitioning from a
> regular Athlon to an Athlon64. Since I am not
> upgrading my hard drives, I
> plan to upgrade the OS as follows:
>
> 1. Boot from the latest Gentoo live CD.
>
--- Antonino Sabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > If you want a 64 bit userland then you should
> start
> > over with an AMD64 stage.
>
> So you mean that whenever the hardware platform
> changes are
> so substantial (as in this case), one should install
> the system
> from scratch?
> Please, b
By "new config (AMD64)" do you mean change
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ?
Sounds like a bad idea.
--- Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the
> livecd, chroot and
> emerge the system using the new config (AMD64),
> re
--- "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm.
>
> While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new
> architecture work, if
> you recompile the entire system? Is this one of
> those
> should-work-in-theory-but-
> don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there
> are some packages, li
--- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits
> instructions. But you can't
> use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or
> contrary), and this
> will append while recompiling your system (when a
> library used by
> emerge or gcc will be recompiled
--- Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Then delete directories - bin, sbin, lib, sys,
> etc, opt.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap3
You could recycle the old directories as a 32-bit
chroot environment. That could come in handy if you
w
--- Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the
> system is concerned
Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel
processors with EM64T are supposed to be x86_64
compatible, right? That would mean that the gentoo
AMD64 project applies her
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the
> > system is concerned
>
> Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel
> processors with EM64T are su
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think
> those binary packages
> > propagate into /var/db as well. (IF they do, I
> think they might not
> > reflect the actual USE flags used to
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2
> file and didn't find
> that it has any references to the /var/db directory.
>
The data not inside the tar archive. It's appended
onto the end of the tbz2 file. You know it's there
because if you u
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No, you're not the only one. I wondered a bit about
> this a few weeks
> ago and found a number of comments in the forums and
> Bugzilla that
> revdep-rebuild doesn't work very well yet for binary
> packages. I see
> this with openoffice-bin and thun
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In This case, how would one determine what IUSE
> values were used for the
> package said package then? How can one use to view
> this data?
>
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
if len(sys.argv)!=2:
print "usage: %s " % sys.argv[0]
sys.ex
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> answer the 2nd question I have regarding the "+" or
> "-" and whether the
> USE flag is in USE?
This should do the trick:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
if len(sys.argv)!=2:
print "usage: %s " % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(1)
sys.path = ["/usr/
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So if I understand it correctly, what is being done
> is XPAK will take
> the USE flags from the system which compiled the
> binary and then sort of
> make a comparison with the USE flags for that
> particular package and
> work from there? Am I rig
--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include
> that in Edition 3
> (July) of the MyOSS Magazine
> (http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and
> Tricks. (crediting you of course)
>
Oh it's really nothing. Glad I could help. ;-)
Zac
--- Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried
> messing with dia,
> but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks
> lots of useful
> features.
> What program do the list recommend?
>
Hi Bruno,
Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's gui
--- Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NFORCE3-250: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly.
> ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Hi Michael,
Does your DVD drive still work with the livecd? If so
you probably don't need to replace the drive. I ran a
search for th
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've
> always been
> fascinated by graphics programming, but never found
> a tutorial that was
> simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I
> liked this tutorial.
Hi Michael,
Sounds like fu
--- Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the
> partition where /var/tmp
> resides is too full.
>
> So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk
> which had a lot of
> space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me
> permission errors.
>
--- Dan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having some problems with deadkeys in OO. In
> every other application the
> deadkeys works fine (like Kmail) to enter chars like
> åäö. But in OO nothing
> happens when i try to enter a special char (¨ + a to
> create a ä).
>
Hi Dan,
I nev
--- Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I want to know if its possible under linux to have
> mac-like
> automounting, e.g. that when i insert a CDROM/usb
> stick/ device> it will automatically pop-up on the desktop
> as an icon which i
> can then access.
>
> The closest i g
--- Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get
> the message
>
> "Cannot open root device "sda11" or
> unknown-block(0.0). Please append
> a correct "root=" boot option.
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount
> root f
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ghostscript 7.07.1:
> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer
> return value: 127
> D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] renderer
> received signal: 127
> D [04/Jun/2005:14:54:36 -0400] [Job 6] Process dying
> with "The
--- Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to tell if floppy file system is vfat or msdos?
Try to mount it and see if the driver complains?
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
I've always used the vfat driver and never noticed any
problems.
Zac
--- Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The compile of glibc fails trying to access the file
>
> /etc/env.d/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5
>
> The file does not exist. Instead we have the file
>
> /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130
>
> The directory /etc/env.d/gcc
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> localhost root # emerge -pv system
> /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared
> libraries: libstdc++.so.5:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> localhost root # emerge sync
> /usr/bin/python: error while loading shared
--- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this
> fixed it for me. It
> makes me wonder why was this necessary?
>
The bootstrap script probably works fine with the
2005.0 portage snapshot. Apparenly there's a bug when
the script upgrades the co
--- ««Omega21»» <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there.
> Right now, Im typing this in webmail because
> none of my Mozilla products are working right.
> And now that I think of it, Gaim is doing the same
> thing.
>
> What happens is:
> >I start the program (firefox // thunderbird //
> gaim)
>
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- ««Omega21»» <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi there.
> > Right now, Im typing this in webmail because
> > none of my Mozilla products are working right.
> > And now that I think of it,
--- ««Omega21»» <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think I figured it out. Here is my output:
> bash-2.05b$ firefox
> \No running windows found
> /home/omega21/.gtk_qt_engine_rc:62: error:
> unexpected
> character `{', expected character `}'
> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 547: 16841
> Segme
--- Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Over the past few months since my first gentoo
> install, I have
> yet to discover how do I find out the current state
> of masked
> ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they
> masked, and 2) any
> known issues with the build.
>
Rea
--- smoke3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> suppose you lost /bin/hostname... what could you do
> in order to make
> it available again?
>
You can use equery from the gentoolkit package:
equery belongs /bin/hostname
sys-apps/net-tools
Zac
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> libtool: compile:specify a tag with '--tag'
> make: ***[rep-types.lo] error 1
> make: ***waiting for unfinished jobs
> libtools: compile: specify a tag with '--tag'
> make: ***[rep-gtk.lo] error 1
>
> !!! error: x11-libs/rep-gtk-0.18 failed.
> !!! function src_compile, lin
--- Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Zac Medico
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and
> this
>
--- Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> `/var/tmp/portage/arts-3.4.1/work/arts-1.4.1/flow'
> ../mcopidl/mcopidl -t ../flow/artsflow.idl
> ../mcopidl/mcopidl -t ../flow/artsflow.idl
> make[3]: *** [artsflow.cc] Speicherzugriffsfehler
>
> (Segfault)
Hi Alexander,
Looks like this one:
h
--- Bogo Mipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> e2fsprogs/Makefile
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.config`,
> needed by `include/config.h`.
> Stop
I'm guessing that maybe you are using USE=savedconfig
improperly which requires you to provide your own
.config? Look in the ebuild:
if use s
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 14:54 +0100, Peter Ruskin
> wrote:
> > These sandbox violations happen all too
> frequently. You should
> > raise a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org. For
> the time being,
> > however, just do:
> >
> > FEATURES="-sandb
--- "askar ..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Below is the one line (iptables' log)of my
> /var/log/messages:
> --
> Jun 6 11:55:45 concord Dropped incoming: IN=ppp0
> OUT=eth0
> SRC=212.42.96.15 DST=192.168.0.250 LEN=64 TOS=0x00
> PREC=0x00 TTL=61
> ID=18896 DF PROTO=TCP
--- Stoian Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine
USE=-sandbox emerge foomatic-db-engine
See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91516
Zac
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--- Stoian Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # emerge -a foomatic-db-engine
>
Oops, thats FEATURES=-sandbox
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--- Hans Hvelplund Odborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I've seen
> many answers like this on
> different mailinglist archives and everyone seems to
> have an opinion of their
> own regarding this. So I'd like to see documentation
> of some sort.
>
> Ex
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks guys, I think I'm going to go with gthumb.
> My current camera
> doesn't integrate with gphoto2, but I'm getting a
> new one that I'm
> sure will. It looks like gthumb has a gphoto2 USE
> flag so I can use
> gthumb now and then integrate it with
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>I have two machines (my laptop and a Pundit-R)
> that both have
> S-Video outputs which I would like to run X over to
> do MythTV with
> talking to TVs. Both machines are ATI-based.
>
>The Pundit-R is set up to use the S-Video output
> i
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. Tried it but same results, other than the
> Alt-Ctrl-+ stuff
> doesn't sequence anymore. (As expected.) Here's
> what's in the (I hope)
> relavant sections. I was assuming my monitor refresh
> rate choices were
> bogus:
>
> Section "Monitor"
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So access to a camera via USB Mass Storage is
> preferred over gphoto2?
>
> - Grant
>
Gphoto2 is for cameras that don't support USB Mass
Storage. If USB Mass Storage is supported then use
that instead.
modprobe usb-storage
dmesg | grep sd
mount -t v
--- Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello!
> I try to emerge cdk (a dependency fot licq) and
> received this error:
>
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++:
>
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3-20050110/crtendS.o:
>
> No such file or directory
> make: *** [libcdk.la] Error 1
>
> !!! ERROR: d
--- Bastian Balthazar Bux
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stoian Ivanov wrote:
> > Wow it is possible to have two consoles? Will you
> be so kind and tell me how do I
> > start/switch to second one?
> > BTW Is it possibe to have three of them or am I
> asking too much?
>
> outside X use
> Alt-F
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Huh, I logged out of root and I can run gthumb as a
> normal user just
> fine. Not as root though. Weird.
That's normal. See the man page for xhost.
Zac
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--- Mats Lidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I have rebooted since the emerge so there must be
> something else.
>
> Following up on my own posting but after some
> investigation it seems
> like my emerge is confused. If I do "emerge -up
> world" there is nothing
> that needs to
--- James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Sorry about this post, as I'm desperate for
> suggestions as to where
> to get answers; hours of googling and noodling with
> ooffice leave
> me with a simple problem, which just may be KDE
> relatedthat
> I cannot figure out? Maybe an upgra
--- Claus Ladekjær Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Problem is, that another version of gentoo (1.4)
> connects immediately where as
> my present version takes about one minute. So I
> really miss to know what is
> wrong about my configuration! Hope somebody could
> give an advice!
>
/
--- "John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Peter De
> Zutter wrote:
> > Hi John
> > screensave on terminals
> >
> > setterm blank 0
> >
> > Greetz
> > Peter
> >
> In KDE --> Control Center --> Peripherals -->
> Display
> On the Power Control ta
--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have had xpdf installed for some time but haven't
> used it for a couple of weeks so don't really know
> which version caused me the problem...I now notice
> that the xpdf executable that used to be in /usr/bin
> no longer exists.
>
> I did a sear
Norberto Bensa wrote:
>
> What is not mentioned is the motivation to replace
sash
> with busybox. So my question is: why?
I don't know about sash but busybox is very very cool.
It's a complete userland in one executable! Check it
out: http://busybox.net
Zac
--- Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry to disagree. I think if he follows what you
> proposed, it might
> break the package. He could, however, unmerge the
> package and install
> directly from sources a version that he knows for
> sure doesn't lag
> this mu
--- maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> >
> > There be a '.' (or './', if you like) at the end
> of
> > that, and yes, you
> > should still be inside the cdboot directory.
> >
> > cd cdboot
> > mkisofs -o /tmp/cdboot.iso -R \
> > -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito \
> > -no-em
--- Pingveno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running two computers in my house, one 550 MHz
> Pentium 3 and one 3
> GHz Pentium 4. The slow one is running Gentoo Linux,
> while the fast one
> is running Windows. I'd like to put together a
> LiveCD that can run
> distcc on the faster computer ju
--- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am slowly but surely rescuing my Gentoo System
> with the latest Live
> CD. It is truly a miracle to have this tool, but
> you need to take some
> time experimenting with how to use it, For
> example, mounting boot and
> root partition
--- Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:00, Christoph Eckert
> wrote:
> > > my konqueror does not support the protocol
> "devices". Which
> > > library am I missing?
> >
> > maybe emerge -pv kdebase will show you use flags
> which have
> > been disabled during compi
--- THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45
> telephone-looking type) NIC
> in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo
> but with USB 2.0,
> so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother
> board details at the
> moment).
>
> the local stor
--- Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:34:04 -0700 (PDT), Zac Medico
> wrote:
>
> > In kDE 3.4 it's been replaced with media:/ and it
> > works for me. It is not affected by USE flags.
>
> Although you will need the hal
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just redid my stage1 install. Everything went
> normal until I got to
> the "emerge --emptytree world" part in the handbook
> (section 6.d). The
> emerge failed when dbus-0.23-rc3 was installed. The
> ebuild tried to add
> the group 'mess
--- Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -audio -pad *.wav
>
> When trying to mount it actually tells me to specify
> the filesystem
> type first, then I specify vfat (it won't accept
> auto), then I get the
> superblock error.
>
Audio cds are in cdda format. It's not
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I have put -d to the argument list in
> /etc/conf.d/net and I get the
> answer.
> Next question: How do I tell the dhcp client where
> to find the host name?
>
What hostname? The client's hostname? That normally
goes in /etc/conf.d/hostn
--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> - I have no such file - /etc/conf.d/hostname
>
>
With older versions of baselayout it was
/etc/hostname.
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--- Claus Ladekj�r Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> okay - here it is - and there is an entrance in it.
> But strangely enough, everything is working now.
> I don't run /etc/init.d/net.eth start anymore but I
> still connects to the
> internet. That is fine, I just don't know what did
> t
--- Antonio Coralles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently turned my workstation into a router
> for my laptop, using
> the great gentoo home router guide. Everthing is ok
> so far, with one
> exception: I can't connect to my ssh server anymore
> from outside the
> LAN, becuase iptables see
--- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is it possible to compile NetBeans or Eclipse from
> ebuilds using Java 1.5?
>
I haven't tried it but I bet it works just fine.
Somebody would have filed a bug by now and the ebuild
would notify you if there was a known issue.
Zac
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Process report. Everything looked good. I opened
> mozilla to my new php
> script and watched as mozilla swelled up to take
> 623.3MB of RAM. This
> computer only has 256MB RAM with 512MB swap space.
> My question is this:
> If PHP is a serve
--- Justin Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, let me recap my build steps, as it seems as
> though I am unable to
> compile either of these apps.
>
> emerge sun-jdk-1.5.0.03.ebuild
>
> emerge netbeans:
> NetBeans 3.5.1 builds fine, however, I'm interested
> in trying a later version.
>
> e
--- Hareesh Nagarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have a screen res of length*breadth by default
> a Maximize on a
> window sets it to length * breadth. Is there a way
> to set Maximize to
> (length/2) * breadth?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hareesh
>
Hi Hareesh,
This is handled by the wi
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:17 +0200, Jules Colding
> wrote:
> > My USE statement includes 'unicode' but the build
> of dialog-1.0.20050206
> > failed due to a missing libncursesw library.
> >
> > The problem is that libncurses is indeed build at
> t
--- Jules Colding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anyways, try "USE=-gpm emerge --oneshot ncurses"
> and
> > that should work around the problem. Note that
> > "emerge --info" shows USE=gpm in the profile so
> you
> > need to disable it.
>
> Why is gpm a problem here?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> jul
--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As shown below, why wouldn't "emerge -u world" pick
> up the update available for gdm?
>
> Actually, I think it is probably because it is not
> listed in /var/lib/portage/world so I guess I am
> actually wondering why it wouldn't be listed there?
>
--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all but in hindsight, I guess I should
> have posted my "emerge -Du world" as it does not
> reveal the upgrade for gdm either.
>
> So I guess at one point, gdm got pulled in as part
> of something else that no longer is on my system?
>
>
--- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only
> it didn't work out for
> me the first time. Any help or advice would be
> appreciated.
Hi Rob,
What do you mean "it didn't work out"? More specific
please. Instead of using the scsibus address like
--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The man page states that
> emerge generates a list of packages which it expects
> to be installed by checking the system package list
> and the world file.
>
> Which brings me to my final questions...where is
> this package list? Is it, as one perso
--- Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The man page states that
> > emerge generates a list of packages which it
> expects
> > to be installed by checking the system package
> list
>
--- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for not being specific enough. What I mean
> was that by specifying
> /dev/hdc as the cd burner, the only program I could
> get to work was
> x-cdroast. None of the other burner programs that I
> emerged and tested
> would work with the ATAPI interfac
--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Actually (since I don't use cdrecord often), I noted
> down the command I
> must use to generate and burn an iso file, so here
> the 'burn' section:
>
> cdrecord -v -dao -eject dev=ATAPI:0,0,0
> driveropts=burnfree
> /wherever/the/file/is.iso
>
--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I do understand that but clearly on my system,
> "emerge -DuN world" does not do everything as it
> misses gdm. Searching back through my old emerge
Like I said, use "emerge -a depclean" to spot packages
like that. If you want any of those packag
--- Janne V�nttinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I just finished installing Gentoo to a laptop and I
> seem to have some
> kind of a problem. The picture during and after boot
> takes about quarter
> of the screen surface, in the middle. The effect is
> similar as when I
> booted the live-cd,
--- Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I set the portage_tmpdir in my make.conf file, and
> have tried emerging
> some packages. But there is a problem, because i
> keep getting errors no
> matter what I emerge, the error looks like this:
>
> ..etc/ebuild.sh ./configur
--- Alec Shaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > Alec Shaner wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive
> and can't get it to
> >>perform reliably on my server. It works fine when
> connected to my
> >>workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with US
--- Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry I didnt get that reply. Either way to answer
> that question, no - i
> do not have the noexec option in my fstab (where the
> drive is
> automounted). This is the line in my fstab:
>
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/storage reiserfs
> notail,exec,user
--- Andy McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I want to be able track the apache and subversion
> ebuilds.
> Bugs with different versions, why one version is not
> used
> over another...
>
> Is there a mailing list where this information is
> discussed.
> I found portage-dev but is seems
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>Is there anything specific that must be built
> into a kernel to boot
> from a USB flash drive?
>
>I'm fiddling with my first flash drive to see how
> well it might
> work for my Pundit-R MythTV frontend box. (to reduce
> noise - no h
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, it's the exact same kernel. All I've done is
> create a couple of
> partitions on the flash drive, make one a small
> bootable on the flash
> drive, copy over the hard drive's boot partition and
> then start
> editing the grub.conf file on the fl
--- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been Gentooing for some time now, but there are
> still USE flags
> that confound me. Like "ftp" and "ssl," for
> instance--do you need those
> to make FTP/HTTPS connections in a web browser, or
> are those flags just
> for incoming connections, as
--- Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you mean not specified by you to be used in either
> /etc/make.conf or
> /etc/portage/package.use, then it's going to be off
> unless you've turned
> it on globally (in /etc/make.conf) or locally just
> for the one package
> (in /etc/portage/package
--- maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard, please resend your follow up to this post
> where you complain about the late hour. I deleted it
> by mistake! It apparently had an important
> correction.
>
> BTW, how long before these posts find there way into
> an archive.
>
> -maxim
>
--- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm confused here, but I'm looking int
> freenx. Using esearch
> freenx, this was the only item I found:
>
> net-misc/nxserver-freenx
>
> Now the name of it implies it's just a server, is
> the client in there
> too, or is this seperate?
>
I
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great call Zac! rootdelay=10 allowed me to boot from
> the flash drive
Excellent! That's good to know. If you need any help
with the PXE I might be able to help with that too
since I use pxelinux to boot my diskless node.
Zac
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--- fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed nxserver-freenx, however it doesn't
> appear any
> documents were installed with it. Meaning I have no
> idea how to even set
> it up.
>
> Any pointers?
>
You need to run the "nxsetup --install" and nxkeygen
then copy the the generat
--- Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Zac,
>Thanks. Shall I contact you offline? I tried PXE
> awhile ago but
> couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure the old Dell I
> used as a test
> box was truly PXE compliant so I was thinking I
> swhould check out what
> low cost, Linux-compati
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