Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:16, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/31/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither > > > of

[gentoo-user] [OT] MyOSS(Open Source) Magazine - Edition 4 Available Now!

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Just wanted to announce that MyOSS Magazine - Edition 4 (The Penguins Are Coming Home) is now officially hitting the street. This is a community driven project which aims to publish monthly. (Sorry if this is considered as spam). Promoting FLOSS There are more than one way to skin a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither > > of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither > of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran > the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worke

[gentoo-user] New Zealand Gentoo Users

2005-07-31 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'd like to scope out the interest that New Zealand based Gentoo users would have to to establishment of a Gentoo Users Group specifically for NZ based users. The items to be established are: 1/ Is there sufficient interest? 2/ Is there anything to stop us using the term "Gentoo Users New Zealan

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:40 +0200, Christian Floeter wrote: > I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, > xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and > xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the > following was produced by xmms-mik

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Martin S
Thanks! Now I remember that I should have searched on that instead. I'll give pybliographer a shot. As it is closest to what I'm looking for, even if it's Gnome ... Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:35 +, James wrote: > Bill Roberts eyeofthequark.com> writes: > > > > I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. > > > > hdparm -Tt /dev/md0 > > > /dev/md0: > > Timing cached reads: 3080 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec > > Timin

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging Liferea 0.9.2

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:37 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 03:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > ui_feedlist.o(.text+0x227d): In function `ui_feedlist_dbus_connect': > > > : undefined reference to `dbus_bus_acquire_service' > > > collect2: ld returned 1 ex

Re: [gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 W On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:59:17PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: > > [...] > ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o > ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a > grep: > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So far I cannot even kill the thing. kill -9 pid or killall -9 unison > act like they killed it but ps aux says the process is still there. > It's even there if I try killing the gui in Gnome. The gui goes away > but the process persists. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:43:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >One possibly tricky part about this will be that in some cases we > > have found bad rips and have reripped files to fix that. In this case > > there is going to be a newer file i

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > [blocks B ] =kde-base/k

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
Thank you all for that information. regards pshemko On 01/08/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:05, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: > > Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both > > distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:59, Zac Medico wrote: > > MAKE_OPTS="-j1 -s" > > CFLAGS ="-02 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" > > CXXFLAGS= "${CFLAGS}" > > CHOST ="i686-pc-linux-gnu" > > > > Any ideas guys? > > It's supposed to be MAKEOPTS, not MAKE_OPTS., and make -s means > silent so you might

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:43:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >One possibly tricky part about this will be that in some cases we > have found bad rips and have reripped files to fix that. In this case > there is going to be a newer file in each either location with the > same name but with a new size

[gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: [...] ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libst

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking > kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1) You cur

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Tony Davison wrote: Emerging kde-3.4.2 failed when emergeing kdebase-3.4.2 with this error. Making all in man make[3]: *** No rule to make target `man.protocol', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ER

Re: [gentoo-user] XML-Parser missing -- is it bad perl? IT WAS

2005-07-31 Thread maxim wexler
> That's one way. Perl-cleaner can also be found in > /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files. #perl-cleaner allmodules did the deed. Thanks Holly. BTW, where are these modules and how do they differ from the ones residing under /lib/modules? __ Do You Ya

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel D Jones wrote: Currently running KDE 3.3. I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1) [block

[gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
Emerging kde-3.4.2 failed when emergeing kdebase-3.4.2 with this error. Making all in man make[3]: *** No rule to make target `man.protocol', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3

[gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel D Jones
Currently running KDE 3.3. I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdeba

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:05, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: > Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both > distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should > we reserve for that? http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Hi, Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should we reserve for that? regards pshemko The Gentoo Infrastructure Project [1] can probably help you. Apparently jforman and cshi

[gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
Hi, Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should we reserve for that? regards pshemko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-07-31 Thread Christian Floeter
I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the following was produced by xmms-mikmod): [] generating symbol list for `libmikmod.la' nm drv_xmms

[gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if Unison is a good tool for helping me make sure the two copies of our music library are consistent? Local: /dev/sda1 mounted at /home/mark/music Remote: dragonfly:/Musiclib NFS mounted at /mnt/Musiclib These two directories started off identical at one point about 4-6 m

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really > automates the process. But generally the steps are: > > 1. fdisk > 2. mkfs > 3. mount > 4. restore files > 5. chroot > 6. install boot loader > 7. reboot Partition

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: > Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux >> #Command (m for help): q >> >> ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951 >> >> > > You misse

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux #Command (m for help): q ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951 You missed a few! :-) The actual number of 512-byte bl

Re: [gentoo-user] mount ntfs partition crashes system

2005-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
Did you upgrade your kernel and forget to make modules_install? What kind of errors are you getting, kernel panic? -MikeOn 7/31/05, Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has been working forever, but I just did it today and it crashesthe system.   I just do this:# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: > Jarry wrote: > >> >> Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and >> 6., and to automate it with some scripts... > > > > Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if > I would really recommend it. > > If you are using a st

[gentoo-user] Re: backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread James
Chris Cox gmail.com> writes: > > I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would > > help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. > > I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk > > on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Andrew Randles
Thanks your reply helped me a lot. That was exactly what I needed. It turns out there are important files in /dev/ that are not dynamically generated. Thanks again, Andrew On 8/1/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Randles wrote: > > >Hi everyone I was hoping someone would hav

[gentoo-user] Init Reloading

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
Under what conditions will init reload? I am a bit worried that in the past week or so I've seen two instances where it says that Init 2.8.6 is reloading. The second of which never came back: underneath the line that says Init 2.8.6 is reloading, a bunch of random characters were displayed and

[gentoo-user] mount ntfs partition crashes system

2005-07-31 Thread Kurt Guenther
This has been working forever, but I just did it today and it crashes the system. I just do this: # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs/ I have ntfs file system built as a module for the kernel: CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m Any ideas? --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Andrew Randles wrote: Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have suggestion for me. My hard drive was going bad so I bought a new one and put it in. Instead of doing a complete reinstall I used dar and a usb harddrive to do a backup of the system. I then used a gentoo live cd (2004.2 or 3)

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and 6., and to automate it with some scripts... Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if I would really recommend it. If you are using a stage 1.5 with grub, you would need to archi

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: I am currently using 'dar' to backup to external USB hard disk. I thought of this too, but I don't know how to "power-off" usb-disk remotelly. On the other side, after burning and unmounting dvd-r, dvd-drive stops spinning (kind of overheating protection)... 5. chroot, 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:44:13 +0200 Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I just used the search term "bibliographic" on Freshmeat and it seemed to come up with some stuff you may find useful. Then there's always esearch $ es

[gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Andrew Randles
Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have suggestion for me. My hard drive was going bad so I bought a new one and put it in. Instead of doing a complete reinstall I used dar and a usb harddrive to do a backup of the system. I then used a gentoo live cd (2004.2 or 3) and to get everything setu

Re: [gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding

2005-07-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 20:17, sabato 30 luglio 2005, Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > Is playback in Kino also slow? If so, try emerging it with the > ffmpeg flag. I don't know if it is still the case, but there were > problems with libdv running very slowly on some amd64 system, mine > included, and getting Kino to us

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Skwar wrote: Is it possible to encrypt the complete block device with loop-AES? Or does it only encrypt a file that's afterwards loop mounted? Yes. Everything that can be encrypted with dm-crypt can also be encrypted with loop-AES. For example, my laptop has two hard drives.

[gentoo-user] FYI: Gimp + xscanimage

2005-07-31 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I was struggling with getting gimp to accept xscanimage as a plugin but no matter what I did I always got this: --- /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage: GIMP support missing. (gimp:19576): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read():

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a Well, from googling it seems that the driver is still u

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 13:53, domenica 31 luglio 2005, Alexander Skwar ha scritto: > > How? > > /bin/crypsetup < file-with-passphrase > > Where does the attacker see the passphrase? > > Oh. You took my example way too literally. *echo*ing the password > is an extremely bad idea. You're of course right. But in realit

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish schrieb: > Alexander Skwar wrote: > >>Richard Fish schrieb: >> >> >>>Pupeno wrote: >>> >>> >>> >I use the dm-crypt from the kernel > > > > I've read that it is unsecure and I also read that it is not yet vory well suported.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Hi, I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for archivin

Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Daevid Vincent wrote: Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus con

Re: [gentoo-user] how to deploy a video lab?

2005-07-31 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:15 +0600, simply change wrote: > AybOwan! (=welcome) > > dear lu_zero, > > im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka > (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing > tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary

[gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Martin S
I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I'm looking for software to keep a collection of research references and notes. I currently play with RefKeep, but - is there other such software out there somewhere? Anyone knows?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:44:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > (none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname && cat > > /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb > > laeb.dyndns.org > > (none) mark # > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/conf.d/hostname > # /etc/conf.d/hostname >