[gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-18 Thread Keith Dart
The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users are advised to stick with 2008.0 profile for quite some time. (spoken from experien

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While in

[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it: http://bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:17:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a > > > bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of > > > trouble a few times. > > > > Wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a > > bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of > > trouble a few times. > > Wait until some bastard runs > > mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.gotcha > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 01:11:50 Dan Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: > > > I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While > > > init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:11:36 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES > were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and > became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing > monstrosity, of which I required on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user

2009-08-18 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: > > I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While > > init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. > > I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28185

Re: [gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 00:11:36 Walter Dnes wrote: > IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were > OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a > honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of > which I required only

[gentoo-user] IPCHAINS or other alternative firewalls or packet-filters?

2009-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
IPCHAINS did the firewall job for me. Early versions of IPTABLES were OK too. But it eventually developed the Mozilla disease, and became a honking big routing/gatewaying/QOSing/singing/dancing monstrosity, of which I required only a small fraction of its "functionality". And I'm really confus

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

2009-08-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > >> Shawn Haggett writes: >> > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of >> > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following >> > happens: >> > >> > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails... again

2009-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: > Shawn Haggett writes: > > Some recent updates have broken my mythtv (missing libraries) so I'm of > > course trying to recompile it. Whenever I try however, the following > > happens: > > > > sgc ~ # emerge -va mythtv > > [...] > > > /var/tmp/portage/media-tv/mythtv-0.21_p18314-r1/temp/

RE: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Ryan Holt
Awesome. Thanks for the help... That did it. -Original Message- From: paul.hart...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.hart...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hartman Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:22 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Depen

Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 19:14:42 Ryan Holt wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm getting dependencies issues with mediawiki when trying to install with > the math use flag: > > > > oscar ~ # emerge -pv mediawiki > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Holt wrote: > dev-tex/latex-unicode Perhaps try to unmerge that and try again

[gentoo-user] www-apps/mediawiki-1.14.1 Circular Dependencies with Math Use Flag

2009-08-18 Thread Ryan Holt
Hello, I'm getting dependencies issues with mediawiki when trying to install with the math use flag: oscar ~ # emerge -pv mediawiki These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-lang/ocaml-3.10.2 USE="gdbm ncurses ocam

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-18 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:55:13 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > I have things set up to allow me to connect to dialup, and still keep > connections going to my other machine ("LAN" = 2 machines). I think this > is similar to your situation. The key is in my /etc/conf.d/net file as > per the followi

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes

2009-08-18 Thread Walter Dnes
I have things set up to allow me to connect to dialup, and still keep connections going to my other machine ("LAN" = 2 machines). I think this is similar to your situation. The key is in my /etc/conf.d/net file as per the following excerpt... routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.123.254 metric

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2009-08-18 Thread Alex Schuster
On 2007-06-15, Dale wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > > With big hard discs cheap and with ADSL > > connection, the advantages of the meta packages are diminished. > > If I understand your meaning correctly, not everyone can get broadband. > I'm on dial-up and it is all that is available here where I

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-18 Thread Moshe Kamensky
* Crístian Viana [17/08/09 00:24]: > once I had a problem like this, and I solved it by adding the following > section to xorg.conf: > > Section "ServerFlags" >Option "AllowEmptyInput""false" > EndSection > > it happened earlier this year when I upgraded x11-base/xorg-x11. Thanks, I tr