[gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following error from update-eix: Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) Reading 50%terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread Johann Schmitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Same Problem here on amd64. John covici wrote: | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following | error from update-eix: | | Reading Portage settings .. | Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. | [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache:

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216 And also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=580#580 Sorry but that link will scroll down but you can always scroll back up. Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] kde confusion

2008-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, another problem which did exist before the bug in eix... After emerge --color=n --verbose --update --deep world I get a list of new/updatable package. And I got blocking packages as well. I (think to) know, what "blocked" means, but this: [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves:3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > Same Problem here on amd64. > > John covici wrote: > | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following > | error from update-eix: > | > | Reading Portage settings .. > | Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. > | [0] "g

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 09/21/2008 Dale([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216 > > > > > > And also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=580#580 > > Sorry but that link will scroll down but you can always scroll back up. OK, th

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > > Same Problem here on amd64. > > > > John covici wrote: > > | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following > > | error from update-eix: > > | > > | Readin

Re: [gentoo-user] kde confusion

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:16:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > another problem which did exist before the bug in eix... > > After > > emerge --color=n --verbose --update --deep world > > I get a list of new/updatable package. And I got blocking packages as > well. > I (think to) know,

Re: [gentoo-user] kde confusion

2008-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Alan, thanks for teh info and the link... One short question: Is this process a long process which needs interaction of the user often or is it a long process, when prepared compiles/does things alone for a long time (so I can start the whole thing for a nightly run...) Have a nice sunday! :

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Eric Martin
Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> Hi again, >>> >>> Same topic, same thread. Cool huh? >> >> [snip] >> >>> Anybody know of any problems with these folks? Somebody see something I >>> missed? Oh, $9.95 is a lot better than $22.95. I noticed that right >>> away. >> >> Are they mon

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Eric Martin wrote: Dale wrote: I have thought of having my own site and stuff but being on dial-up just takes ALL the fun out of it. The dial-up out here sucks even on dial-up standards. I get 24Kb which is about 3KBs/sec. I plan to go talk to the cable company in a local town to see if the

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I upgrade my python version?

2008-09-21 Thread haoniukun
Thank you for all your attention and reply. I installed an older version of bash and reinstalled portage. This works for me at least. Now the system's working fine for me. Thanks again for your reply. 在2008-09-21 01:29:18,"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道: >Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > >> That

[gentoo-user] Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

2008-09-21 Thread Astomi Chen
Hi gentoo friends, I'm a newbie in gentoo world. I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My question is the new system console is 800*600. I want to change to 1280*800(my laptop in windows in this szie). I search in Gentoo Forums, find a thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewto

[gentoo-user] Privoxy log access rights

2008-09-21 Thread Mick
Hi All, Could you please tell me what is the access rights on the provoxy log file on your machine? For some reason mine look like this: # ls -la /var/log/ | grep priv drwxr-x--- 2 51 privoxy 408 Sep 21 07:40 privoxy -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally s

[gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: [...] 192.168.1.5 fandango Sometimes I need to connect to the server while I'm far from home, so the server has also a dyndns address, let's

Re: [gentoo-user] Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

2008-09-21 Thread Justin
Astomi Chen schrieb: Hi gentoo friends, I'm a newbie in gentoo world. I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My question is the new system console is 800*600. I want to change to 1280*800(my laptop in windows in this szie). I search in Gentoo Forums, find a thread http

Re: [gentoo-user] error in updating eix

2008-09-21 Thread John covici
on Sunday 09/21/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > > > Same Problem here on amd64. > > > > > > John covici wrote: > > > | I did an emerge --sync followed by up

Re: [gentoo-user] Privoxy log access rights

2008-09-21 Thread Hal Martin
Mick wrote: Hi All, Could you please tell me what is the access rights on the provoxy log file on your machine? For some reason mine look like this: # ls -la /var/log/ | grep priv drwxr-x--- 2 51 privoxy 408 Sep 21 07:40 privoxy Mine: drwxr-x--- 2 privoxy privoxy4096 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine > is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: > > [...] > 192.168.1.5 fandango > > Sometimes I need to connect to the server whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I upgrade my python version?

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 14:08:46 haoniukun wrote: > Thank you for all your attention and reply. > I installed an older version of bash and reinstalled portage. > This works for me at least. > Now the system's working fine for me. You'll probably find that you can now update python, python-upda

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like > this: > > [...] > 192.168.1.5 fandango > > Sometimes I need to co

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote: > > Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you?  You can get a > > sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to > > split the signal.  It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better > > than dialup.  BTW, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Privoxy log access rights

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:05:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > Could you please tell me what is the access rights on the provoxy log > file on your machine? > > For some reason mine look like this: > > # ls -la /var/log/ | grep priv > drwxr-x--- 2 51 privoxy 408 Sep 21 07:40 privoxy That's the /va

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote: Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you? You can get a sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to split the signal. It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better than dialu

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:28:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine > > is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: > > > > [...] > > 192.168.1.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:47:24 Robert Bridge wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 > > Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like > > this: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:19:46 +0200 Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:47:24 Robert Bridge wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 > > > > Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm unable to find it! There is /usr/lib64/openo

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Justin
Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm unable to find it!

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:34:15 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > Like having a /etc/hosts.home and a /etc/hosts.world and a script > > that sysmlinks them to /etc/hosts depending on the fact that i can > > ping or not 192.168.1.5? > > Basically, I would probably look at methods of hooking it onto t

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Justin schrieb: Florian Philipp schrieb: Hi list! Somehow I think I'm missing something: As it seems, app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away real soon and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher which is emerged with app-office/openoffice. So far, so good, but I'm un

[gentoo-user] Re: Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

2008-09-21 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:52:05 +0800 "Astomi Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gentoo friends, > > I'm a newbie in gentoo world. > > I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My > question is the new system console is 800*600. I want to change to > 1280*800(my laptop in windo

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 September 2008 19:17:29 Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:28:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > > > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc

[gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running Windows Vista). I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same problem with the 2008 liveCD image. The problem is that I can access web pages with links, like www.gentoo.org, but I can’t ping anything. Also, when I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21.09.08 21:59]: > I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running Windows > Vista). I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same > problem with the 2008 liveCD image. The problem is that I can access web > pages with links

[gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only one). To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT has been removed. Can someone confirm? Am I actually dreaming? Anyone know why a pe

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Aleksey Kunitskiy
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only one). > To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. > > I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT h

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Mike
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only one). > To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. > > I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT has been > removed. Can someone confirm? Am I actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, September 21, 2008 3:53 pm, Sebastian Günther wrote: > * Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21.09.08 21:59]: >> I’m trying to set up Gentoo in a Virtualbox on my laptop (running >> Windows >> Vista). I’m using the 2007 liveCD image, although I’ve had this same >> problem with the 2008 l

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Mike
Mike wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only >> one). >> To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. >> >> I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire kde-4.1 SLOT has been >> removed. Can some

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:26:15 pm Mike wrote: > Mike wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only > >> one). To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. > >> > >> I updated layman -S today only to f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

2008-09-21 Thread Astomi Chen
Thank you Justin and >>Q<<. I will give a try this night.

[gentoo-user] kdm + the DISPLAYMANAGER var.

2008-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, some time ago kdm was updated and after that it would not start automagically at boot time as it done before, cause the /etc/init.d/kdm- scritp fails. I think the place were DISPLAYMANAGER is set, has been changed. The docs I saw spoke of the places, where it is set before kdm fails to start

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
For some reason I don't get USERDIR working on my amd64 box. Below is attached the output from /etc/init.d/apache2 dumpconfig

[gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Sorry for the aborted send a few minutes ago. For some reason I am not getting USERDIR on amd64. Attached below is the output of /etc/init.d/apache2 configdump The trouble is apparently early in the output /usr/sbin/apache2 started with '-D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D LANGUAGE -D MANUAL -D SSL -D

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with apache on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
On my x86 system there is -D USERDIR. And what's on your /etc/conf.d/apache2 ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm + the DISPLAYMANAGER var.

2008-09-21 Thread Norberto Bensa
What is the correct place to set DISPLAYMANAGER? /etc/conf.d/xdm This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

[gentoo-user] Ssmtp gotcha

2008-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for 7 days . I tracked the problem down to a change in /etc/group when I updated Ssmtp 2.61-r2 -> 2.62-r3 : there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for ''. There

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice quickstarter

2008-09-21 Thread Philip Webb
080921 Florian Philipp wrote: > app-office/ooqstart-gnome and app-office/oooqs are going away soon > and there is supposed to be a quicklauncher > emerged with app-office/openoffice but I'm unable to find it! As help to others who need it, here is my own note to myself : OO Quickstarter :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

2008-09-21 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:41:45 -0500 »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:52:05 +0800 > "Astomi Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi gentoo friends, > > > > I'm a newbie in gentoo world. > > > > I follow Gentoo Handbook to installl a new sytem in Vmware. My > > question is

Re: [gentoo-user] Privoxy log access rights

2008-09-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:05:35 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Could you please tell me what is the access rights on the provoxy log > > file on your machine? > > > > For some reason mine look like this: > > > > # ls -la /var/log/ | grep priv > > drwxr-x---

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird networking problem

2008-09-21 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Michael Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22.09.08 01:16]: > > In the VirtualBox user manual, the section that talks about bridging, it > says in one part: > > If your host is running Windows XP or newer, you can also use the built-in > bridging > feature to connect your host interfaces to your phy

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag 22 September 2008 03:42:39 schrieb ext Jerry McBride: > Hmmm maybe you guys would know I've gone the same route as you. > However, I've emerge 4.1.65. It compiles fine, installs, no problems. And you don't wonder why 4.1.65 follows 4.1.1? That's 4.2-(pre?)-alpha! The next 4.1 r

[gentoo-user] eix-sync failure

2008-09-21 Thread Mick
I am not sure what's causing this: === >>> Updating Portage cache: 100% real 1167.44 user 76.27 sys 29.21 * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix)

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync failure

2008-09-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Mick schrieb am 22.09.2008 08:34: I am not sure what's causing this: === Updating Portage cache: 100% real 1167.44 user 76.27 sys 29.21 * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. B

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync failure

2008-09-21 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: I am not sure what's causing this: === Updating Portage cache: 100% real 1167.44 user 76.27 sys 29.21 * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building da