Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 09:35 schrieb ext dirk dil: > but there is no such thing as /dev/sda1. No /dev/sd?? what so ever. > > What am I missing? Kernel support for SCSI and SCSI disks, I'd guess. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manage

[gentoo-user] flash drive mounting

2006-05-15 Thread dirk dil
Hi guys, I'm having trouble mounting a jetflash 110 onto usb. The stick is on a usb port and my kernel supports usb mass storage and dos fs's. I don't think the stick needs a special driver. In the manual it says I should be able to mount with: mount -a -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/jetflash but

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
wu chuanwen wrote: > 2006/5/15, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> wu chuanwen wrote: >> Either fix all the packages yourself as you insisted on >> using JDK 5.0, despite it being hardmasked. Or you remove >> all the Java packages which got installed after you installed >> JDK 5.0 and install

[gentoo-user] dlloader USE flag

2006-05-15 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
In process of switching to nVIDIA drivers and following advice found in forums to use the latest drivers. They recommend adding USE flag "dlloader" and re-emerging xorg-x11. I notice from /use/portage/profiles/use.local.desc that it enables the dynamic module loader instead of the ELF one. So my

Re: [gentoo-user] cause jdk1.5 emerge tomcat error!

2006-05-15 Thread wu chuanwen
2006/5/15, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wu chuanwen wrote: > I have unmerge the sun-jdk1.5 and emerge sun-jdk1.4 and it success. > But now there is new problem when i emerge the one which tomcat dependen on: Yep. That's because you used JDK 5.0. In bugzilla you can find a lot of reports

[gentoo-user] Re: 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-15 Thread James
Friedrich Göpel gmail.com> writes: > > I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo system. > > The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video card in the machine is: > > I have a similar setup, though my tv has a physical resolution of > 1366x768 it only allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-15 Thread Adrian
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:51:57 -0300 "Daniel da Veiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > There are alternative ways to update portage that are more suited to > your dial-up connection. > > ### Extracted from > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153842 > > Download a snap

[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Köhler
> Sorry - I thought it was clear from my description. Everyone is > using the word 'unicode' in the definition of 'unicode', or so it is > seeming to me. I've managed to get far enough to understand it's a > different way of expressing font usage, I guess, but I don't > understand when someone wo

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

2006-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 May 2006, maxim wexler wrote: > > > Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I > created a > > franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to > get > > me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the > feeling > > they think I'm making stuff up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

2006-05-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 5/12/2006 9:51 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thu

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I create /dev/ieee1394/dv/host0/PAL/out so I can write back to tape with Kino

2006-05-15 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - Just answering my own post if anyone's interested. I figured it out by creating the following script to create the relevant nodes to capture and write DV video from my camcorder: -- rm /dev/video1394/0 rmdir /dev/video1394 rm /dev/raw1394 mkdir /dev/video1394 mknod -m 666 /dev/video1394/0 c

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Pablo Antonio
On 12:18 Mon 15 May , Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio > squawked: > > On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > > > configure my vixie cron to do a ni

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Ryan Tandy
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: /proc/mtab is maintained by the kernel, /etc/mtab is maintained by mount itself. /proc/mounts of course ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread Pablo Antonio
On 13:02 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: > > On 10:30 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: > > > hi; > > > Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always > > > quits with a timeout error. Like this: > > > > > > receiving file list ... > > > 143979 files to consider > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-15 Thread Ryan Tandy
Grant wrote: I'd like it to behave that way as much as possible so my Gentoo router can handle as many of the router duties as possible. I've disabled the Westell's firewall. What other types of things should I look for in the Westell's configuration screen to disable? Is there anything tha

[gentoo-user] Re: can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread James
Matias Grana dm.uba.ar> writes: > > hi; > Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always > quits with a timeout error. There's been a new release of portage. Do you have it? emerge -pv portage emerge -v portage hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > This should work OK, and the original poster could simply read: > > man portage > > And learn all of this and more! I think the original poster has the same problem as me, I just use trial and error and the -p option, a lot sometimes. It took me at least a half dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 21:22:50 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after > > reading this was: what does /proc/mounts contain after doing this? > > something different then mount shows: > > # mount | grep home > /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
060515 Mick wrote: > Anyone ? Maybe I'm an anyone (grin) ... > Until a couple of stable versions ago, I had ooo-kde in my USE flags, > which emerged OOo with the nicer Ximian style icons. > ooo-kde is now deprecated, so I removed it > and ever since OOo is launched with the uglier menu icons. > T

[gentoo-user] device-mapper driver version in gentoo-sources 2.4.32-r4 kernel

2006-05-15 Thread Joe Harvell
Is there a way I can tell which device-mapper version is in this kernel? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?) (SOLVED)

2006-05-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 15 May 2006 15:29:18 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Mon, 15 May 2006 20:55:41 +0300 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> At Mon, 15 May 2006 22:07:08 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Allan Gottlieb wrote: > M

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-cache doesn't exist?

2006-05-15 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Mick wrote: What's this cache message? Do I need to do anything to fix it? == # eix-sync -v * eix-cache doesn't exist or uses obsolete format. Running update-eix! Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /us

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/15/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:08:49 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Just for arguments sake, let's say I wanted to run openoffice stable > only. First I remove app-office/openoffice ~x86 from package.keywords > and reemerge app-office/openoffice-2.0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo ADSL wireless router (3 questions)

2006-05-15 Thread Grant
If you don't have to use/setup PPPoE to use the dsl connection, then it's a router (just dhcp needed). If you don't know what PPPoE is, and you used your PC to the dsl modem fine before, and didn't install any software (on your PC), then it's a dsl/router combo. This is quite common for dsl prov

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Sascha Lucas wrote: This tools from SGI are a little bit different, then I expected, but they seem to work: # setfattr -n user.test -v foo bla # getfattr -d bla # file: bla user.test="foo" I forget to mention, they work even without user_xattr mounted. curiosity! Sas

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Farhan Ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:53 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day? > > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > [...] > > > > I am planning to get a few ma

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/15/06, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list, I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in the fi

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
> -Original Message- > From: Rumen Yotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:19 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day? > > de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've been installing gent

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 20:18 +0200, Sascha Lucas a écrit : # lsattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint/a Same "problem" here. But man lsattr says it's for ext2fs only.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

2006-05-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 15 May 2006 20:55:41 +0300 Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Mon, 15 May 2006 22:07:08 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Allan Gottlieb wrote: My normal emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world >>

[gentoo-user] eix-cache doesn't exist?

2006-05-15 Thread Mick
What's this cache message? Do I need to do anything to fix it? == # eix-sync -v * eix-cache doesn't exist or uses obsolete format. Running update-eix! Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Re

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:18:26 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and then mount it with user_xattr: # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint but it seems not to work? I can't be of much further help, but my immedi

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:08:49 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Just for arguments sake, let's say I wanted to run openoffice stable > only. First I remove app-office/openoffice ~x86 from package.keywords > and reemerge app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1. > Now, where do I specify that I only want the nex

Re: [gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-15 Thread Friedrich Göpel
On 03:05 Mon 15 May , James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo system. > The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video card in the machine > is: I have a similar setup, though my tv has a physical resolution of 1366x768 it only a

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenOffice with KDE icons (ooo-kde)

2006-05-15 Thread Mick
Anyone? Please see below: On 14/05/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Until recently ( a couple of stable versions ago) I used to have ooo-kde in my USE flags, which emerged OOo with the nicer (me thinks) Ximian style icons. Well, ooo-kde is now deprecated. I removed it and ever sin

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:18:26 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and then mount it with user_xattr: > > # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint > > but it seems not to work? I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after reading this was:

Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 15 mai 2006 à 20:18 +0200, Sascha Lucas a écrit : > # lsattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint > lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint/a Same "problem" here. But man lsattr says it's for ext2fs only. However getfattr works well. Hope this helps

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Andersson
Rumen Yotov wrote: de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello list, I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in the first place

[gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?

2006-05-15 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi, I'd like to use extended attributes on ReiserFS. I thought the only one is to enable it in the kernel: # zgrep -i "reiser.*attr" /proc/config.gz CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y and then mount it with user_xattr: # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint but it seems not to work?

[gentoo-user] TLS errors

2006-05-15 Thread Darren Grant
I'm having trouble using email clients to authenticate outgoing mail via TLS. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is the error from my maillog... May 15 11:00:10 amhs1 postfix/smtpd[4278]: initializing the server-side TLS engine May 15 11:00:10 amhs1 postfix/smtpd[4278]: warning: canno

[gentoo-user] gnome2_src_unpack: command not found

2006-05-15 Thread Jason Ausmus
Hi, I have a number of ebuilds failing on the gnome2_src_unpack command. Any thoughts, or what further info should I post? Thanks, Jason -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:14:41PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > > > I currently have > > > > app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords > > > > app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed > > > > I would like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

2006-05-15 Thread Rumen Yotov
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Mon, 15 May 2006 22:07:08 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> My normal >>> >>>emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world >>> >>> produced the following >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> libtool --quiet --mode=compile

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

2006-05-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 15 May 2006 22:07:08 +0530 Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> My normal >> >>emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world >> >> produced the following >> >> [snip] >> >> libtool --quiet --mode=compile gcc -c -O -g -Wall -pipe -I.

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread Rumen Yotov
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do > a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with > rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in > the first place (I've also tr

Re: [gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 12:44:05 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > I currently have > > app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords > > app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r2 is currently installed > > I would like to be able to mask all updates until > > app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 or app-office/ope

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > [...] > > I am planning to get a few machines going on a manual installation while > I troubleshoot the livecd problem. These machines are behind a router > and there will be multiple emerge --sync requests coming from the same > IP. Is this a problem? I read somewhe

[gentoo-user] LVM install fails to boot in 2006.0 with no-nptl/2.4 profile

2006-05-15 Thread Joe Harvell
I am in the process of installing Gentoo on an x86 from the 2006.0 installer CD using the 2.4 kernel profile. I created an LVM2 volume group with logical volumes / filesystems for '/', '/usr', '/var', '/opt', and '/home'. I had no problems mounting those filesystems and then chrooting into th

[gentoo-user] package.mask and my thick skull

2006-05-15 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, This has been discussed over and over in this list, but I am unable to find any references that make sense to me. Could someone please explain the different ways that you can specify an atom in package.mask? I currently have app-office/openoffice ~x86# in package.keywords ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > My normal > >emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world > > produced the following > > [snip] > > libtool --quiet --mode=compile gcc -c -O -g -Wall -pipe -I. > -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.2/include -I > /usr/src/linux-2.0/include -D

[gentoo-user] multiple emerge --sync on the same day?

2006-05-15 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, I've been installing gentoo on 16, almost identical PC's. I wanted to do a manual install once and clone the rest but I am having problems with rebooting a gentoo box with the same livecd I used to install gentoo in the first place (I've also tried with a fresh livecd). Booting with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 10:51:06 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? echo '#!/bin/bash' >/etc/cron.daily/emerge-sync echo 'emerge --sync' >>/etc/cron.daily/emerge-sync chmod +x /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio squawked: > On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? > > > > I know it can be done, howev

RE: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
> On 5/15/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? > > > > I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary > > instructions > > man cron

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread Matias Grana
> On 10:30 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: > > hi; > > Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always > > quits with a timeout error. Like this: > > > > receiving file list ... > > 143979 files to consider > > rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(1

Re: FW: [gentoo-user] livecd does not boot after gentoo install

2006-05-15 Thread Pablo Antonio
On 11:24 Mon 15 May , de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > > Hello list, > > I am posting the message again because I sent it over the weekend and > some of you may not have seen it. > > After using a livecd to make a successful gentoo install, I tried to > boot from the livecd again but in every

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA and Gnome problem.

2006-05-15 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I thought that anyone on the list could help me find out the problem, give me a hint to where I can find the solution, maybe I was wrong On 5/14/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I am experiencing a real odd thing, I configured my kernel to alsa for NVIDIA AC'

[gentoo-user] Trouble updating apmd (wrong gcc version?)

2006-05-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
My normal emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world produced the following [snip] libtool --quiet --mode=compile gcc -c -O -g -Wall -pipe -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/src/linux-2.2/include -I /usr/src/linux-2.0/include -DVERSION=\"3.2.1\" -DDEFAULT_PROXY_NAME=\"/et

Re: FW: [gentoo-user] livecd does not boot after gentoo install

2006-05-15 Thread Farhan Ahmed
de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: > [...] > After using a livecd to make a successful gentoo install, I tried to > boot from the livecd again but in every attempt the bios keep booting > grub from the hard drive. If I remove the hard drive from the list of > boot devices in the bios and force it to boot

FW: [gentoo-user] livecd does not boot after gentoo install

2006-05-15 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list, I am posting the message again because I sent it over the weekend and some of you may not have seen it. After using a livecd to make a successful gentoo install, I tried to boot from the livecd again but in every attempt the bios keep booting grub from the hard drive. If I remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/15/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary instructions man cron man crontab man 5 cro

Re: [gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Pablo Antonio
On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? > > I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary > instructions Well, you'll be amazed by how

[gentoo-user] Nightly emerge sync

2006-05-15 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary instructions Thank you TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teac

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread Pablo Antonio
On 10:30 Mon 15 May , Matias Grana wrote: > hi; > Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always > quits with a timeout error. Like this: > > receiving file list ... > 143979 files to consider > rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(171) > [sender=2

Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 May 2006 10:30:46 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: > Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always > quits with a timeout error. Like this: Try a different rsync server. -- Neil Bothwick This is as bad as it can get-but don't bet on it. signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] can't emerge --sync

2006-05-15 Thread Matias Grana
hi; Beginning a week ago or so, I can't emerge --sync anymore. It always quits with a timeout error. Like this: receiving file list ... 143979 files to consider rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(171) [sender=2.6.8] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (3358508 bytes rece

Re: [gentoo-user] 1366x768 HDTV

2006-05-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 15 May 2006 02:05:28 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get the SVGA input on a HDTV to work with my gentoo > system. The monitor manual says it works with 1366x768. The video > card in the machine is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation > NV34 [GeF

Re: [gentoo-user] php-5 being forced to install?

2006-05-15 Thread Maxim
> > It says... > > > > [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/php-5.1.2 > > [ebuild R ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 > > > > I don't understand why it's trying to do this, as I have not asked for > > php 5 to be installed. And I'm also worried about it breaking > > existing PHP applications. > > > > Any ideas of w

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-15 Thread dirk dil
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 11:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 5/14/06, dirk dil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to gentoo. My system is fairly recent and I'm running > > the amd64 > > version of gentoo. I'm trying to update my system and I get the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] update failed

2006-05-15 Thread dirk dil
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 13:07 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Fabrice Delliaux wrote: > > dirk dil a écrit : > > >> emerge --update --deep world > >> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: dev-lang/php-5.1.2 > > > > Check your package.use file : no need to specify the atom's

Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?

2006-05-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would really like to see is something like reiser4's plugin > scheme brought up to the VFS layer in the kernel, so that any > filesystem could gain transparent compression. Hmm, wouldn't that be a device mapper task, just like dm-cry