Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected

Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

Am Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: > I get the gentoo-sources, no big deal. The java thing wouldn't exactly > break my system either but the pwdb which pam depends on, well, wouldn't > that be bad to remove? > > What's the deal? Remove it? Remove it and death will be painful and >

Re: [gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any > cruft. > > This has me confused: > > >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > selected: 2.6.23-r6 > >protected: none > >

[gentoo-user] pwdb, pam and safe to remove?

Hi, I run --depclean -p every once in a while just to clean out any cruft. This has me confused: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources selected: 2.6.23-r6 protected: none omitted: 2.6.23-r3 2.6.23-r8 sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 p

[gentoo-user] System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968

System locale charset is ANSI_X3.4-1968 I receive the message above after running k3b. I have my system locales set in /etc/locale.gen. I believe it is UTF-8. Moreover, idn --debug --quiet "" corroborates k3b warning. Is there anything I can do? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

On 26 Feb 2008, at 19:51, Stroller wrote: Thanks. I think this has been suggested before for my backups - IIRC it has a useful --ignore-path or --exclude-path command which can insure you all the users' Documents & Settings, without the useless temp & "Temporary Internet Files". rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

On 24 Feb 2008, at 19:46, Christopher Copeland wrote: On 24 Feb 2008, at 06:06, Stroller wrote: So my question is: Is there any way to check the integrity of copied directories, to be sure that none of the files or sub-directories in them have become damaged during transfer? I'm thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

On 24 Feb 2008, at 11:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Stroller wrote: I've done this loads in the past, and never been aware of any file corruption, but I guess I'm just paranoid today. Perhaps I shouldn't use the -v flags during my copy - it's reassuring to see the files

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1418 (76078-76127)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:03 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > I then added `ProcSetting extra_pages_allowances 7500` to suspend2.conf ah yes, this is a great one isn't it?! This had me stumped for a while. It might a higher number for future driver versions, so always check if you have the right v

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Two things wrong with that. First, I have eselect'ed emacs-23, yet I > still see what I believe to be emacs-21 info (I have been looking at > the macro help in particular; maybe there is a better way of finding > the info version). Second, eselect only shows the emacs

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:02 +, Stroller wrote: > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I > >> have > >> customization that will disappear. Again.)

[gentoo-user] problem with kernel and net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng

Hello, Group, I am trying to install and use NetGear MA111 usb wireless network. I followed the instructions here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Prism2_USB_on_Gentoo But I get errors when I try to install the kernel module. linux-wlan-ng-0.2.8

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?

Hi Volker, on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:15:22PM +0100, you wrote: > > http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php > > don't panic. Just because something works in a lab, does not mean that it > works outside of it too. So they were able to freeze some ram and get some > information of i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: md5sum for directories?

On Sunday 24 February 2008, »Q« wrote: > Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm thinking of something like md5sum for directories. > > I think you may have gotten better solutions for your situation, but > md5deep (in portage) is like md5sum but with directory recursion. I'm probably not sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:02:58 + Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > >> (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. > >> I have > >> customization that wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

Here's my progress so far: I installed the 2.6.23-tuxonice-r10 kernel, ati-drivers-8.40.4, hibernate-script-1.97-r4, and radeontool-1.5-r3. After this hibernate to disk started working but only from the console with xdm shut off. The logs showed an "extra_pages_allowance is currently only 500" mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs and info dir

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:22:15AM +, Graham Murray wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > So the question is, why do I have old emacs in the main info dir and > > newer emacs info in subdirs which are not easily accessible from the > > info system, and what do I do to correct this? > > 'e

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make a new user with default .blah files. Does it happen for the new