[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is what I would recommend for a normal linux system: > > [hs]da1: /boot, 64M, ext2 > [hs]da2: /, 256M, ext3 or xfs > [hs]da3: LVM I used to use something like this for a long time as well, but I think it was Neil from this list, who made me think

[gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I > suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. Is that actually true (especially for the Portage case)? I'd suspect that portage sometimes tends to be slow, because of the myriad of files it has to deal with. So it's I/O which is slo

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating a restricted user

2007-12-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then can't log in via GDM. Makes sense. I want the user to be able > to log in via GDM but not via ssh. Is that configured in ssh? Yes, you can configure that in SSH. There are the DenyUsers DenyGroups keywords for sshd_config. Alexander

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:01:55 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using >> > rpm2targz >> >> And why should that make any difference? I mean, afte

[gentoo-user] Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:03 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> cd / >> rpm2cpio < /tmp/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using >

[gentoo-user] Re: Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:03 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> cd / >> rpm2cpio < /tmp/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using >

[gentoo-user] Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. Google just (?) released a new version of Picasa - 2.7 beta. Did somebody of you manage to get this to run on Gentoo Linux? I downloaded the RPM from , , and unpacked it by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Dec 7, 2007 4:37 PM, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2007 16:21:31 Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So the expectation should be, that it's not going to be possible > > to preselect an mta the way I've shown, as soon as virtua

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2007 10:49:42 Alexander Skwar wrote: >> I installed stage-3 2007.0 and am now trying to configure >> it to my liking. For example, I dislike nano and would like >> to use vim instead. vim (am

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the >> > default choice. >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. On Dec 7, 2007 3:56 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the > default choice. How does it do that? How do I make it select something else? > A virtual/mta package does not exist ATM. True. There are just packages which PROVIDE vi

[gentoo-user] Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?

2007-12-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I installed stage-3 2007.0 and am now trying to configure it to my liking. For example, I dislike nano and would like to use vim instead. vim (among other editors) provides virtual/editor. So I thought, that I could add virtual/editor app-editors/vim to /etc/portage/profile/virtu

[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems

2007-11-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:47:24 +, Thufir wrote: > > >> Now, shows >> that 1.2.5 is stable, though. 1.8.6_p110-r1 looks to be latest stable >> release of ruby available through portage for x86 syst

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
t from a cd and emerge | glibc. He also said, that he cannot use common shell commands anymore, that's true. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc unmerged by accident

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
to fix this I will have to boot from a cd and emerge >> glibc. [...] > "busybox ash" > Hopefully it's not dynamically linked ... But even then, he won't have much luck emerging something, as gcc requires glibc. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Disk ARchiver command line questions

2007-11-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
R, that is :) > 4.) How do I get DAR to generate the second slice? It does it automatically, as soon as the slice reaches the specified maximum size. > I know that these questions are answered in the manual, Yes. PS: There's a dar mailing list as well. Dennis, the author of dar, reads it and very quickly responds there as well; always very helpful! Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> pvcreate /dev/hda vgcreate data /dev/hda lvcreate -L42g data mkfs >> /dev/data/lvol0 >> >>

[gentoo-user] Trying to install binary package -> Endless loop of cache miss?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
x27; And the "x" keep on appearing. What's taking so long there? The directory index isn't that big (51k, see <http://public-files.askwar.s3.amazonaws.com/public-files.askwar.gentoo-packages.s3.amazonaws.com_GentooUSB_packages_All.index.htm>). Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] glibc upgrade -> re-emerge system?

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! This morning, I upgraded to glibc 2.7 from whatever used to be current in ~x86 before that (2.6.). Do you guys do a "emerge -e system", ie. recompile everything, after such an upgrade? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
> > that's a really good suggestion (appending the system name). As for the > just > doing a VGA scan etc., never work for me. What "VGA scan"? > Usually the drive would not be > recognized and as far as the new system is concerned, the only useful >

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
fit on a postcard? -v: pvcreate /dev/hda: Intialize the device as a physical volume (pv), so that it can be used by LVM. One time job. vgcreate data /dev/hda: Create a container called "data" which will hold the different sub-containers. The "data" container is made up of the /dev/hd

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Is EVMS dead?

2007-11-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
All that's needed to be done is a vgscan followed by a vgchange. That's it. > in looking for examples for this kind of recovery process, I came across a > rather nice page from our friends at Novell. "friends"? Novell, that's the enemy! Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Using Amazon S3 as a PORTAGE_BINHOST

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. I'd like to use one of my public "buckets" at Amazon S3 to store the package files. To do so, I uploaded the packages to s3. They are available at , all stored under the prefix GentooUSB/packages, eg. at

[gentoo-user] libxml++config.h missing - what package should provide the file?

2007-10-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
ere's something like the now gone "PFS", "Portage File Search" service, which used to be at <http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/cgi-bin/pfs-web.pl>? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
w, didn't write that. I wrote: ...mount, then (recursively) > change permissions... Well, the "then" was missing :) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons

2007-10-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
t using LVM. Not true. With HP-UX 11.11, you could also choose *NOT* to use LVM. But nobody in a right state of mind would do that :) (Well, generally speaking at least. There will certainly be some corner cases, I suppose.) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
if the user has NOT built the module in the kernel. > Is there something else I should be doing? Install sys-fs/fuse :) Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] X.Org 1.4 with Nvidia?

2007-10-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
rs (nvidia-drivers-100.14.19). Does anyone know, if it's now "safe" to use xorg 1.4 with nvidia-drivers? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
* was at 2007/05/06. Latest *RELEASE* of cdrecord is dated 09.09.2004. > You cannot rely on it because it has been initiated by people who attack free > software. You're talking about cdrecord? Alexander Skwar -- Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind. -- Erma Bombeck -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world

2007-09-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [blocks B ] [sys-power/hibernate-script-1.96-r1) > > So, I tryied to remove splasutils version: > emerge -C "=media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2" > > but: > # emerge -C "=media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2" Yep. It's saying, that any version before 1.5.2 is bloc

Re: [gentoo-user] hald won't start [SOLVED, sort of...]

2007-09-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi again! Quoting Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Since this morning, I'm unable to start hald. [...] device_info.c:984: Unhandled rule (0)! I found that this bug 172830 <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172830>. This bug has to do with libgphoto2. Yes

[gentoo-user] hald won't start

2007-09-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Since this morning, I'm unable to start hald. This is in so far a pretty big problem, as this means, that I cannot boot :| After setting HALD_VERBOSE=yes in /etc/rc.conf, I found that it filled the syslog with a lot of lines like device_info.c:984: Unhandled rule (0)! Searching the arc

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression >> > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Back to tar: Why use "tar -j" in scripts, when "bzip2 | tar" >> does the same thing? I very much disagree that "tar -j" is >>

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Alexander Skwar, > >> Yes, it's very bad that Gentoo scripts don't limit themselves to >> POSIX. Another windmill to fight against. > > Artificially limiting yourself to the lowest common denominator wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous >> options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a >> (badly written) scrip

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-25 Thread Alexander Skwar
b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar ha scritto: >> Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>>> ... >>>>> and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its suppo

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar schrieb: >> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. >> >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> ... >>> and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar. >>> Just pipe >>> from/to it. >> >> It does and that's th

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
of one compression algo and become > incompatible with the way emerge unpacks packages sounds pretty stupid > IMHO. ACK Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
search for any implementations of tar > compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. What do you mean? > I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star > to /bin/tar. > > Let's see if it works. Command line options aren't ident

[gentoo-user] Re: star

2007-09-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
hives if they are unpacked using star. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Hacked by association?

2007-09-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
nf or one of the included files. Do a grep -r 444 /etc/apache2 444 is the number associated with snpp. Alexander Skwar -- Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing? -- Rich Little -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Well, I also found myself being unable to start sshd, but >> these most often were due to some configuration changes. > > And exactly for this is why test-restart was proposed

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 18:01:48 Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > Key words "in some circumstances". >> >> Like? >> >> Actually, I never found this to be true. > > Never? Good for you. Yep. &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> A "/etc/init.d/sshd stop" won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll >> simply the sshd "master process&qu

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
tc/init.d/sshd test-restart" would be nice. For what? > It'd allow all of us to stop worrying > about a potential restart/lockout issue. A "/etc/init.d/sshd stop" won't kill any SSH sessions. It'll simply the sshd "master process". Because of that,

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:40:45 Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > openssh, in some circumstances (I believe to be openssl changing ABI), >> > will not restart as you found. It will only not restart when it's being >

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH won't restart

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
remote logged in via SSH. I find, that after having done this, new settings/versions are active. Alexander Skwar -- Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 16 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Balaviswanathan Vaidyanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > This is to know how to block certain websites as I intend to set >>

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Could you not add the sites to your hosts file and point them back to local? No. This won't hinder a user from accessing a proxy site and have that site fetch and display the content. Check out one of the MANY MANY proxy sites at http://proxy.org/. A

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
er.skwar.name/~askwar/stuff/proxy/>. Blacklists don't work. BTW: This has nothing at all to do with Gentoo. Alexander Skwar -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs for Xen

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo#TLS_and_CFLAGS states, that '-mno-tls-direct-seg-refs' is to be added to the CFLAGS. Do I need this flag on my dom0, or just on my domU's? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
pkg or --buildpkg and then simply install the resulting packages on these other machines? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe the revdep-rebuild guys should (could?) include -X if it's the > right thing to do? They do. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
e from the rebuild or attempt to change > revision numbers by hand on the fly in the long command that > revdep-rebuild -p creates. revedep-rebuild -X. That's default in the rewritten version. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse Paste

2007-09-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Korthrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This did work before I changed everything from the basic xmouse > config. I'd change everything back to the normal config and then gradually at stuff, until it breaks again. This way, you'll see when it breaks and it'll be easier to

[gentoo-user] Re: Extending a partition with LVM on it

2007-09-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
n maindisk. > For the moment I added a new partition (via cfdisk, that I did dare do) > that takes up the entire gap and extended maindisk to that. Fine. > It's not > what I wanted, but it works. What do you dislike about this? Alexander Skwar -- MS-DOS, you can't live with

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
u have been sending >> up to $DEITY for years :-) Exactly. I don't get why people try so hard to not use LVM. Alexander Skwar -- It is important to note that the primary reason the Roman Empire fail is that they had no concept of zero... thus they could not test the success or failure of their C programs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
tools, eg. LVM stuff. I recommend GRML as a rescue disc. Alexander Skwar -- Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
d at all for an initrd. Alexander Skwar -- Chuck Norris is not Politically Correct. He is just Correct. Always. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bug report is certainly warranted, the information reported now > is useless. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190853 Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] df shows /dev/dm-* instead of LV name

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
3165112 2612868397628 87% /usr /dev/mapper/sys-ng_Var 524268139316384952 27% /var [...] Any idea about why the "hetzner" system shows "dm-1"? And what needs to be done to change that? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Jealous

[gentoo-user] Portage File Search gone - alternatives?

2007-08-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
me to enter a filename of a *NOT* *INSTALLED* *FILE*, and it'll return me to which package this file belongs. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-portage.com & gentoo-wiki.com

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Anybody knows what is going on there? Their mysql server is down. I bet, it's because too many people used these sites, while the official sites are down. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot build mono: "The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date"

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: [...] >> mount -t proc ChrootProc /mnt/gentoo/proc [...] > I thought this was the proper command to mount proc: > > mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc > > What is the ChrootProc part? It doesn'

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Cannot build mono: "The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date"

2007-08-13 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install mono on a new system. To do that, I'm building > everything inside a chroot (it's the same system I referred to in the [...] > mono-1.2.4 fails as well: [...] > | [build/deps/basic-profile-che

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
machine has been made inaccessible, no? > If you expect volunteers to do the job > you should cut them some slack when something goes wrong.. I do. That's why *I* wrote, that it is okay for me, that the site is down. I "complained" about the most important issue here - lack of communication. Alexander Skwar -- 'Mounten' wird für drei Dinge benutzt: 'Aufsitzen' auf Pferde, 'einklinken' von Festplatten in Dateisysteme, und, nun, 'besteigen' beim Sex. -- Christa Keil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: charset iso/utf

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
he letters "é". This looks quite a lot like UTF-8 to me. In your header, "you" are saying, that you don't use UTF-8, though. >> but your mailer marked the message with charset=iso-8859-1. > > That is what I would expect Mutt to use. Why? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
too.org/. Or at least a message on the mailing list and more importantly, on the Gentoo homepage would have been good. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org: dead?

2007-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I have problem on my side, Yes, you do. You seem to be unable to scroll back a few pages in this mailing list, to see that this question has been asked two times. > or is that site really down? Yep. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: is http://packages.gentoo.org/ off-line?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it for me only? No, it's not. Please see the other thread, I started "shortly" :) before yours *g* BTW: It's still offline. Alexander Skwar -- Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the wi

[gentoo-user] Cannot build mono: "The contents of your 'monolite' directory may be out-of-date"

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ` I'm building/compiling all of that on a Athlon XP system (no 64bit). It should finally run on a Celeron M system (32bit as well). Hence the -march and -mtune combination (see above). Quite some t

[gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? > > Port 80 closed, ping answers (RTT ~216ms). Tested from Argentina. Thx. So it's not just me. BTW: ping time:

[gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Is it just me, or is http://packages.gentoo.org/ not available? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
I wrote: > Since this morning, Gnome (?) doesn't mount USB sticks and CDs > automatically anymore. How I hate that... I now have reinstalled udev, hal & dbus with CONFIG_PROTECT="-*", and now automounting works again. Even in Gnome. Strange. Alexander Skwar --

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction -> Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
use athlon-xp instruction set? Is that what I'm doing? If so, then it seems you're right - code will run, but maybe not so well. Is that understanding correct? If so, then I really should think twice about using "-mtune=pentium-m -march=athlon-xp", shouldn't I? Curious, Alexa

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction -> Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Me, myself & I: > Indeed, I think that I just have mixed up -march and -mtune (aka. -mcpu). Seems like. I now have: CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and with this CFLAGS, I am able to compile texinfo. Alexander Skwar -- Q: Wh

[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction -> Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
` That's for -mcpu, which is, in 4.x, a deprecated synonym for -mtune. Well, I'll just give it a try. Alexander Skwar -- Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder. -- Kirk, "This side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Cannot compile texinfo: Illegal instruction -> Wrong -march and -mtune flags?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
eter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VID EO_CARDS="fbdev vesa vga via" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Can you MAIL a BEAN CAKE? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Stop net.eth0 from starting?

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
yway. | # Example - RC_PLUG_SERVICES="net.wlan !net.*" | # This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be plugged. | | RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth*" ` That's what I do at home as well. Works very fine. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
wheel),16(cron),18(audio), | 19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),80(cdrw),85(usb),100(users),250(portage), | 443(plugdev) ` Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] USB devices and CDs don't get mounted automatically anymore

2007-08-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
urses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xine xinerama xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="dummy hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m usb-audio usb-usx3y" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb n curses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy none nv nvidia vga" | Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ` Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] -Os = Nono? (was: gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo)

2007-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And then Os. That is a big nono. Why's that? Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
rt, as it forces the use of certain instructions, even if they would not be used automatically? Because of that, I'd refrain from using stuff like -msse for each and every package. There might be the odd package out there, where something like this would help. Conclusion: I'd use: CFLAGS=&qu

[gentoo-user] Re: Mail client usage?

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: >> Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: >>> Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: >>>> I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail client usage?

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: > Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: >> Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: >>> I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the >>> list and one post has shown up. At least that&#

[gentoo-user] Multiple Messages (was: XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
ID. Anyway, I think it would be proper to say that this barf up was probably not caused by something the OP has done. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mail client usage? (was: XSESSION="Xsession" doesn't work!)

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
nced regarding the usage of your > mail client. ;-) I'm curious - what makes you say that? Stroller sent one post to the list and one post has shown up. At least that's how it looks like over here on the GMane side of things. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Remote access to windows desktops

2007-07-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can anyone tell me > if FreeNX even allows windows XP home to Linux. Not possible. There's no FreeNX server for windows. Alexander Skwar -- Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than where they

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Remote access to windows desktops

2007-07-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What are people using to access a networked windows XP home machine > desktop and control it? VNC or RDP Alexander Skwar -- I'm having a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE ... and I don't take any DRUGS -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

2007-07-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> > Packages in bold are in your world file. >> >> Is this also documented somewher

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I had the same problem on my laptop. You have to deactivate generic >> drivers in your kernel. (Stuff like Generic ATA Support) > > Do I need BLK_DEV_IDEDISK, when I&

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem on my laptop. You have to deactivate generic > drivers in your kernel. (Stuff like Generic ATA Support) Do I need BLK_DEV_IDEDISK, when I've got a SATA disk? But you say that I should remove IDE_GENERIC, right?

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered trying with those ata kernel params turned off? I did now and it did not change anything :( Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had the same problem two days ago on my laptop. You have to deactivate all > generic drivers in your kernel. Look for stuff like generic ATA support. Great. A thing to look out for :) You're also using kernel 2.6.22? Alexander Skwar

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Packages in bold are in your world file. Is this also documented somewhere? I mean, besides in the bug report you digged out? Thx, Alexander Skwar -- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"

[gentoo-user] Re: Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
for this idea! > You seem to know what you're doing, Thx. > but I use no such parameters and > haven't any problems. I think I was unable to boot without them in pre 2.6.21 times. But maybe this has changed. I'll find out. Thanks again, Alexander Skwar -- I don'

[gentoo-user] Absymal IDE performance with gentoo-sources-2.6.22 and why hda instead of sda?

2007-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
2.6.21 is started with the following entry in grub: ,[ kernel 2.6.21 ] | title Gentoo GNU/Linux (vorletzter gebauter Kernel) | root (hd0,2) | kernel /vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda6 lapic libata.atapi_enabled=1 combined_mode=libata `---- Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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