Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. test doesn't output anything...it indicates succe

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-26 Thread b.n.
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Yeah, use ext2 for all of that: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm http://www.fs-driver.org/ All of those are supposed to worik, and I am trying them out now. Ok, but what do we do with digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > > > > tree shows the dependency/reverse dependency tree of the items to be > > emerged, so you can see why something being emerged/upgraded as a > > dependency of something that is currently up-to-date is being emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Eric Bliss
On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:35 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. > > For instance "test -f /usr/bin/test"

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When > the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. > > For instance "test -f /us

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved)

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem > > > > You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev wind

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Persson
Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance "test -f /usr/bin/test" doesn't display any output. Nor does "test --help". Nor "test --vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

2006-01-26 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > From the manpage: > domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name > dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name > nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name > ypdomainname - show or set the sy

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Yeah, use ext2 for all of that: http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm http://www.fs-driver.org/ All of those are supposed to worik, and I am trying them out now. good luck, joshua On 1/23/06, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Passing "./configure" options via emerge

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
Well, after some additional crappy support from Netraverse, I decided to dig deeper into the whole mouse synchronization problem. At first, all the information I found about it indicated the problem to be with the emulated video driver (from what I understood, anyway) and that the solution would be

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2006-01-26 Thread Tom Smith
Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT same problem as WTS. The problem appears to be an X keyboard mapping issue. In m

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

2006-01-26 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:14:42 + Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a > domain name. The domain name is correctly written > in /etc/conf.d/domainname, but typing domainname returns (none). I > can set the domainname wi

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Laptop: 2 problems

2006-01-26 Thread Thierry de Coulon
Hello, I've been installing Gentoo on an IBM Thinkpad T43 and, while I've been able to get a mostly working machine, I need some help for fine tuning: First (but not very important): I can't get the system to use a domain name. The domain name is correctly written in /etc/conf.d/domainname, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Captive will not acquire?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 04:35, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > # /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire > bash: /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire: No such file or directory > # captive-install-acquire > bash: captive-install-acquire: command not found > Did you enable gtk USE flag? -- Regards, Abhay

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2 - print fonts problem

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph
I just upgraded to OpenOffice 2.0.1 but it seems to me that certain fonts that came with OpenOffice will not print on the printer, they are being substituted to something else. Example "Becker" font will not print. Is there a work around? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread james
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > tree shows the dependency/reverse dependency tree of the items to be > emerged, so you can see why something being emerged/upgraded as a > dependency of something that is currently up-to-date is being emerged > (and what the main application is). Example: Yes

[gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > emerge --deep --update --tree --verbose world Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6-r1) [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.4.6-r1) [blocks B ] dev-php/p

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved)

2006-01-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 26 January 2006 10:44, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the > > > problem > > > > You can also try running xev, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved)

2006-01-26 Thread Paul
On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem > > You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev window, > which will show you want events X is generating

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness on a fresh install

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:19, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > > checking for C compiler default output...configure: error: C compiler > cannot create executables > See config.log for more details. > What is the output of "emerge --info" -- Regards, Abhay pgpJvcqj12cz6.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php blocking

2006-01-26 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > >> Try "PEAR-PEAR" (packages names are case-sensitive). > > # emerge --unmerge PEAR-PEAR --- Couldn't find PEAR-PEAR to unmerge. > unmerge: No packages selected for removal. > >>> I even 'emerge --sync' again, today and still I have: > >

[gentoo-user] version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2006-01-26 Thread Jeff
I'm seeing this pop up a few times since upgrading to gcc-3.4 - what the heck did I break? ARGH! I love Gentoo... -- Han Solo: Wonderful girl! Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:38, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > Hi all, > Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. > In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 messages > will be deleted instead of 1. > Sometimes when reading messages another

Re: [gentoo-user] meld dependencies [SOLVED]

2006-01-26 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 16:09, Rumen Yotov wrote: > For any deps you can directly check the ebuild file (DEPEND|RDEPEND). Now I finally managed to track it down. It turned out it was in post dependency (PDEPEND) of libgnomeui. I would have thought that equery would be able to tell me that,

Re: [gentoo-user] no trouble getting to sleep, but would rather die than wake up

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'echo mem > /sys/power/state' is what is frustrating. It goes to sleep > alright, but I can't wake it up. The only thing that does anything is the > power button, and what that does is send the system into shutdown. Power is the correct way t

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:58:27 +, andrew turner wrote: > ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.1/packagecd/ Doh! I was looking in the 2005.1-r1 directory :( -- Neil Bothwick In a classified ad: "Tired of cleaning yourself? Let me do it." signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, great to know I was wasting time with wrong xine config file :) > however, just before your message i recompiled amarok without gstreamer suport > and problem has gone, hope forever cause I'd like to keep this app. Ah, I also buil

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the problem You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev window, which will show you want events X is generating to the clients. If you see something like two button down o

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Thursday 26 January 2006 17:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I > need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the > mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? > Never tried GRP install but is it al

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread andrew turner
Quoting Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I > need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the > mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > "Bother," said Po

[gentoo-user] Where are the GRP discs?

2006-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
It's been almost a year since I last installed Gentoo. Now I need to do it again, and I can't find the GRP package CDs on any of the mirrors I've tried. Anyone know where I can find 2005.1 GRP ISOs? -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, when he read his AIDS test results. signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-26 Thread Dale
Paul wrote: > >Thanks to Peter and Yann for your replies. >I have tried another mouse and another USB port which didn't solve the >problem. >By the way I am running KDE 3.4.3 I just can't see why we seem to have this >problem, it's so frustrating. >I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??

2006-01-26 Thread Paul
On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 16:24, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:38, Paul wrote: > > Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. > > In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 > > messages will be deleted instead of 1. > > > > Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:38:14 -0500 "Michael A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Weird, huh? Not weird at all. emerge reads target names from the commandline, but not from stdin. Chris should know this... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm a

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-26 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Thursday 26 January 2006 07:21, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/24/06, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is > > bumpy with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to > > tweak settings and