Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:12:28PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Looks like http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161173 > > Try: > WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9 emerge --oneshot =net-libs/gnutls-1.4.4-r1 > emerge --resume Thanks, this works. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync

Gee whiz! That was fast! That didn't seem like the same bug, exactly, but the cure worked. mkdir /etc/portage/profile ! Alan On 1/12/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 12 January 2007 08:00, Alan E. Davis wrote: > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync

On Friday 12 January 2007 08:00, Alan E. Davis wrote: > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' In the future at the very least include what version of portage you use with a traceback from portage like this. In this case, however, it just requires to search bugzie: https

[gentoo-user] emerge fails after eix-sync

This amd64 machine hasn't been updated in a while. Now, after updating, any emerge, eix-sync, or ebuild command gets a long message, as follows: Littlebird etc # emerge --sync cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

On 1/11/07, chrissie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out balearen chrissie # cat /var/tmp/portage/gnutls-1.4.4-r1/temp/autoconf-31509.out * autoconf * configure.in:326: error: possibly u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: > Success, but I can't explain it all. > > First, I removed 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ' from xorg.conf. > That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. > Now, earlier I had problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

Success, but I can't explain it all. First, I removed 'Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" ' from xorg.conf. That got the VT working and the Zooming. But ALT-TAB wasn't working at all. Now, earlier I had problems with the WIN key not working for me as I wanted it to, and adde some xmodmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Corbin wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote: >> Harm Geerts wrote: >>> On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:05, Avaricen wrote: > Harm Geerts wrote: > > On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: > >> For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm > >> reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the > >> individual KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 02:05:22 AM +, Avaricen wrote: >> Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? > > Even TWM should work in case you don't want to emerge anything. > > > Justin Agreed, howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

On AD 2007 January 12 Friday 02:05:22 AM +, Avaricen wrote: > Have you attempted using CTRL-ALT-NUM+ on another desktop env? Even TWM should work in case you don't want to emerge anything. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: >> For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm >> reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the >> individual KDE packages, odd

Re: [gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi, > > I miss the tool cpio on the install CD. Where ca I submit that feature > request? > > I would really appriciate it to have cpio on the install cd. > > Thx a lot > Matthias > I'd suggest reading, start here: http://

[gentoo-user] Re: CTRL-ALT-NUM+

On Friday 12 January 2007 01:34, David Corbin wrote: > For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm > reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the > individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. > > I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, b

[gentoo-user] Improvement Request for Install CD

Hi, I miss the tool cpio on the install CD. Where ca I submit that feature request? I would really appriciate it to have cpio on the install cd. Thx a lot Matthias -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the univ

[gentoo-user] CTRL-ALT-NUM+

For some unknown reason, CTRL-ALT-NUM+ has stopped working for me. I'm reasonably sure it happened when I switch from KDE-monolithic to the individual KDE packages, odd as that sounds. I've sought help from #xorg and #gentoo on IRC, but no one has been able to help. I can tell you this: 1)

[gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

Hi, I have an USB scanner HP2200c. It is automatically detected and used with Fedora and Ubuntu. But on my personnal laptop, I use Gentoo and I would like it to be detected. I have installed xsane and its dependencies (sane-backends, hplip,...) When I launch xsane, it says it does not detect any

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

On 1/12/07, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in You may find sys-process/ht

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

sean wrote: I tried the xf86-video-ati driver as you suggested. Xorg just starts up, is blank or black for a few moments then just ends. Cannot find out a reason why at this point. Hmmm - I notice from another email that you have lost your .so for radeon, so that might be an issue, so af

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:43:34 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > I tested it before posting and it did work. It didn't mask -r*, > > allowing a upgrade. > > It doesn't work at all. Nothing gets masked. It's simply ignored: You're right, I didn't test very effectively. I should have just check

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

sean verizon.net> writes: > I emerged the latest drivers you specified above and -dri stable > drivers, these actually compiled. > The xorg configure keeps crashing, but I played around with my earlier > xorg config. Well, if you like I'll email directly to you my xorg.conf file for my ati-190

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:43, John covici wrote: > Also, what did work was >dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see > what it was ignoring, etc. An invalid atom like e.g.: ">=dev-lang/php-4*" will make portage 2.1.2 spit out a warning about it being an invalid atom. I do consider the fa

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, b.n. wrote: > > Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of > gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even tell what your > external IP is unless you query the modems web interface. To the user, > you can just be 192.168.1.50, and the mod

[gentoo-user] problem with 'source' in heartbeat init script

I'm trying to use heartbeat, but running into a bit of a snag at the very beginning. The init script attempts to source a file with '. $HA_DIR/shellfuncs'. shellfuncs tries to figure out what its name is with 'basename $0'. The problem is that $0 contains the name of the shell instead of the nam

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

John covici wrote: Also, what did work was >dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. emerge eix eix -pv php kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

Also, what did work was >dev-lang/php-5 I wish there was a way to see what it was ignoring, etc. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this all

Re: [gentoo-user] lspci missing ATI details

On 1/10/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm not sure when it happened, but lspci (lspci -vvv) does not report on the details of my ATI 1900 video card, like it did a few weeks ago, when I last checked. Any ideas which upgrades/packages could be affecting this, lack of detail? I re

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this allows > > > patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update > > > to a higher upstream version.   > > > > That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't w

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:28:51 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this allows > > patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update > > to a higher upstream version. > > That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't wor

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

Jorge Almeida ha scritto: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: Generally, these devices provide full DHCP, DNS,NTP, Port/Host based routing/firewalling etc, and all users are NAT'ed behind it. Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff und

[gentoo-user] hda soundcard and microphone

I'm still trying to get an external microphone working on my laptop. I've been googling around for the last few hours and searching the alsa-wiki for info but I've not found the answer yet. Here's the setup. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 laptop. It has the HDA soundcard (82801G (ICH7)) with

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

John Covici wrote: Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Thanks. Assuming this is going back to the PHP thing, this will allow you to update to future versions of 4.x

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:56, John covici wrote: > If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli > pick what version they are going to use? Apparently there's a php-select tool [1]. And I think apache has separate init scripts and use flags for each slot. You should hav

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On 1/11/07, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? I think there was just a thread on top-posting, btw. IIRC, you pass "-DPHP5" or "-DPHP4" to apache in /etc/conf.d/apache (or possibly

[gentoo-user] Re: net.eth0 device initiated services

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you could emerge ifplugd, then the startup scripts won't try to > initialise eth0 if no cable is detected. Is there something like this which will bring my wireless connection up or down depending on whether the device is found? (My laptop has a hardwar

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 > John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, I did put my php ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. Tried an slocate again,

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:30, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': > On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > add >=cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask > > That too isn't a valid a

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > I don't really know how to mask a version in a different slot. I would have > even expected my suggestion to do that anyway. But this makes much more > sense, because there should be a seperate masking for each of the slots -- > and it r

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > add >=cate-gory/package-1.6* to your package.mask That too isn't a valid atom. Lose the '*'. It's only valid with '=' not '>=' or '~'... Valid atoms are described in `man 5 ebuild`. -- Bo Andresen pgp9EzkNnmr9O.pgp Description

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It would be better to use ">~pkg-category/package-0.0.1". this allows > patch level updates, such as 0.0.1-r1 while not permitting an update to a > higher upstream version. That isn't a valid atom and it plain doesn't work. Even if it did i

Re: [gentoo-user] Several Gentoo-Problems

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > Both (er, all if you happen to have more than 2) interfaces will need > to be listed there for it to be effective. The problem is that if > some device comes up without a rule and grabs eth0, then udev won't > take eth0 away from it

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it > still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild > -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there > =dev

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:10:29 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for the syntax have a > look at "man 5 portage". For your case, it's basically a line like > > >pkg-category/package-0.0.1 > > assuming you want to keep 0.0.1. It would be better to us

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

OK, I did put my php version in the /etc/portage/package.mask, but it still wants to install a new major version -- curiously it says ebuild -ns rather than just -n or -u. I put the following line in there =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 which is my current version of php and emerge said [ebuild NS ] d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:19:47 -0500, sean wrote: > Did a slocate for radeon_drv and it located it in the proper xorg > location for the drivers. Tried xorg again, it failed the same way. > Went to the driver location, and the radeon driver is not present. > Tried an slocate again, it states that t

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

OK, thanks I will try that and see what it does. on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Hi, > > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a > > package

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

On 1/11/07, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is > > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which > > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

On Thursday 11 January 2007 08:50, John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?': > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how > do I accompli

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:50:31 -0500 John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a > package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how > do I accomplish this? You can mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask, for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:42:01 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this normal?: > > 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 > > I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge > sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't move

[gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

Hi. I just did emerge --pretend --update --deep world, but there is a package which I don't want to have emerge update automatically -- how do I accomplish this? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici

[gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in the last twenty hours, and, if I'm reading this right, this single compile has been run

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernels and kernel patches

Michael Sullivan wrote: I like the newer kernels because ivtv drivers that work with them are in portage, and I'm not sure drivers that work with 2.6.11 are still in portage. They are still in there, and I doubt we'll be removing them anytime soon. ivtv v0.4.5 through 0.4.9 will work with kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

James wrote: Hello Sean, I did get my ATI 1900 to work, but, only after quit a lot of pain Still in pain here. Never had so many problems with a card before. 1. unmask the lastest ATI drivers ( as the ATI web sites says there are lots of bug fixes in 8.32.5) and install it. It was the

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

Mark Kirkwood wrote: Sean wrote: I picked up one of these cards today. Normally I prefer nvidia based but I let price make my choice right now. Anyway, have had nothing but problems trying to get this thing working. Found many bugs listed against the ati-drivers, and not having much more succ

[gentoo-user] Re: struggles with SATA

Alan E. Davis gmail.com> writes: > Using an AsRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard and a Western Digital sata drive, I have been having alot of trouble. I found AHCI driver to work, at least detect the drive/partitions. I have had no end of problems.I had moved this drive from another machine w/

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote: > evolution automatically deletes everything including and below the > dash-dash-space-newline when you reply. There we go... PS: newline-dash-dash-space-newline, - Without the first newline, any line that contains "-- " would b

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote: > > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is > > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which > > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. > > Not knowing if it's possible t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

> I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain > mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them. Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice, I would advise you to rewr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:40 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kent Fredric wrote: > > I'll put it here to keep you happy, but IMO, if the body of the > > message discusses a singular idea, then replying after the signature > > should be s

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/11/07, *Ralf Stephan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I > can't get > > AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a > > package > > Dep

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: The firewall and router you get with an ADSL modem are essentially free these days. If you need more then what is in the router, nothing prevents you from building a box for traffic monitoring and advanced routing later. Good point. You must

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: Generally, these devices provide full DHCP, DNS,NTP, Port/Host based routing/firewalling etc, and all users are NAT'ed behind it. Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even te

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

On 1/11/07, Ralf Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get > AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a > package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX.

Re: [gentoo-user] new runlevel

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:08:39 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:49:24 +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: [...] > Watch your boot messages to see when they come up. It is likely that > udev is coldplugging them, which you can fix by setting RC_COLDPLUG > in /etc/conf.d/rc. That was... > S

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

> Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get > AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a > package Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can convert to Pos

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI Radeon 9550

Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm very interested as I've been using a 9550 with HW accel enabled + Xorg (6.9) with the radeon driver in FreeBSD 6 without any problems at all. This encourages me to think they should work in Gentoo as well...(crosses fingers) as I'm in the process of building my mothe