Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

the "qt4" useflag isn't enabled by default, right? that'd be a big 'default' problem to people installing KDE. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:25:25 +0100, Andzrzej Styczeń wrote: > > > * Error: circular dependencies: > > > > ('ebuild','/','devel-u

Re: [gentoo-user] how to emerge mldonkey?

then how was this ebuild (net-p2p/mldonkey-3.0.0) considered stable? On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > > hi, > > > > i got a wired problem. when i was trying to emerge net-p2p/mldonkey, > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!

there was a recent discussion about this on this mailing list: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/msg_13c6d27e4216e91ed3c4800fe42b8e95.xml it seems only Kmail needs that USE flag. I also haven't tried this on my system. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/24/2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo down?

yeah, it's really down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gentoo.org On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get > through anyway. > > - Mark > > -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help

or maybe he's using Seamonkey, like Dale :-) :-). On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 20 March 2010 18:58:49 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 03/20/2010 06:03 PM, Dainius Matusevičius wrote: > > > help > > > > Is this the mailing-list equivalent of a message in a bo

[gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

hi, every time I close a window in KDE 4.4.1, a popup shows up saying "Starting KTTSD Failed" and I don't know why KTTSD tries to start. I don't have it installed right now, but when I had it, KTTSD showed up after I closed a window for the first time, and it didn't appear again. if I don't have i

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

enu entry, for example (like File > Close), it doesn't happen. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:41:38 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > > > what should I do? I know I can install KTTSD but I don't need it. I > > wish I c

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

> > I see that KWin has a notification event for Delete Window, could this be involved? how do I check what's set up for that event? there's nothing unusual in Notifications > System Notifications > The KDE Window Manager nor in Window Behavior > Window-Specific.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 - error when closing window

> > I see that KWin has a notification event for Delete Window, could this be involved? hey, I just found out what the problem was :-) in the file ~/.kde4/share/config/kwin.notifyrc, there was an entry in Event/close which was telling KTTS to say out loud "Good bye" (so lame of me, isn't it). I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-)

[gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings

hi, when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. here's one example, from "valgrind ls": ==10023== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==10023==at 0x55605A4: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so) ==10023==by 0x5560111: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so) ==10023==by 0x4A1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

I think --gen-suppressions may be a too "complicated" solution. valgrind shouldn't find *any* warnings from the libraries of my system at all. either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on glibc. in every other system I try, valgrind runs fine. I rebuilt valgrind, but i

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings

hey Frank, that was exactly my problem! :-) I also had ibus installed and I had those variables set. now they don't exist, my keyboard is [almost] working with HAL. now some other problems came up (like 1) when I press /, the cursor goes to the beginning of the text field and then the character / i

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable

> > when there is a bad package that won't compile for a week or two I've already seen packages doing that, but they shouldn't happen, right? :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Hot can I remove a non-existent package

you can either delete it from /var/lib/portage/world or run "emerge --depclean"; that package should be removed.

[gentoo-user] can't create file but disk isn't full

hi everyone, something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of free space! the output of "df -h" is: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 35G 23G 11G 69% / /de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

at 4:07 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/08/2010 09:21 PM, Crístian Viana wrote: > >> hi everyone, >> >> something weird is happening on my system. I can't create new files, it >> says "No space left on device", but the disk has several gigabytes of &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

d > > You should find a ton of junk temp files (they will go away when you log > out). > Look for big numbers in column 8 > > > > > On Sunday 09 May 2010 00:46:28 Crístian Viana wrote: > > it doesn't seem so :-( > > > > Filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

se 95% of the inodes? and why did I use all these inodes? I don't think I have that many small files on this partition... On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/09/2010 01:46 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: > >> it doesn't seem so :-( >> >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't create file but disk isn't full

thanks! I'll set it to 0% then. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:39:01PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > > what exactly is this reserved block count? is it about the number of > inodes? > > does that mean that, by default,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge building a binary from installed package

yes it is, quickpkg is part of sys-apps/portage :-) $ equery b /usr/sbin/quickpkg * Searching for /usr/sbin/quickpkg ... sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 (/usr/lib64/portage/bin/quickpkg) sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 (/usr/sbin/quickpkg -> ../lib64/portage/bin/quickpkg) On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

wouldn't it be: emerge -o package ? "emerge -DuN package" _will_ install the package itself. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to emerge all missing dependencies of a certain > > application without e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VM experiences and faqs?

> > Anyone know if kvm has a similar gui for managing virtual > machines? > app-emulation/virt-manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

> > What do you mean by "reducing to one source tree"? inside /usr/src, there may be more than one subdirectory, one for each kernel version you've ever had. you can purge the older kernel directories, just "rm -rf" on them. do not delete your current kernel directory: use "eselect kernel list" (

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

use UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sf.net) to create a bootable USB stick.

[gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

hi, when I was trying to emerge the newest libvirt ebuild, the following error appeared on configure: checking for VirtualBox XPCOMC location... not found configure: error: VirtualBox XPCOMC is required for the VirtualBox driver what do I need to install to make it work? I'm emerging with the US

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt needs VirtualBox XPCOMC

try emerging virtualbox-ose or virtualbox-bin befire libvirt. > > But this is probably a bug? libvirt should have virtualbox as a dependency > if the use flag is enabled, I think. > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Crístian Viana > wrote: > >> hi, >> >> when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flags on a minimalist server

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those > where it's optional. > python has optional XML support, but gentoolkit needs that feature. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] Sent from Campinas, SP,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flags on a minimalist server

'RE DOING) it's better to keep it enabled =) see you, On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, James wrote: > Crístian Viana gmail.com> writes: > > > > Ebuils that need xml support don't have a USE flag for it. Only those > where > it's optional. > &g

[gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

hi, I have a Gentoo amd64 and I noticed portage doesn't ignore comments totally on the file /etc/portage/package.keywords (don't know about the other portage config files). if I have the following line on portage.keywords: www-client/mozilla-firefox portage unmasks the Firefox ebuild for my arch

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they were. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Neil Walker wrote: > Crístian Viana wrote: > > www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world > > For it t

Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords

on :) On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > > > thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always > > stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they > >

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing compizconfig-backend-kconfig-0.8.2

compizconfig-backend-kconfig depends on KDE 3.5, not KDE 4.3. you can disable the "kde" USE flag for compiz-fusion by adding the following line on /etc/portage/package.use: x11-wm/compiz-fusion -kde On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Yasin wrote: > i have trouble when installing compizconfig-backe

[gentoo-user] license mask

hi! when I try to update virtualbox-ose-additions, portage says: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "~app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.8" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.0.8 (mask

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: license mask

thanks, that worked! I put: app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions PUEL in the file /etc/portage/package.license =) On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > > > In make.conf: > > > >ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" > > > > to unmask all licenses. Or else nam

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

yes, you can use ln to create a symlink to the new profile, or use eselect to do it for you. $ sudo eselect profile list ... check the number of default/linux/x86/10.0... $ sudo eselect profile set On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > My profile has been >../usr/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel

do you have xorg-server on /var/lib/portage/world? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Grant wrote: > depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel and I'm a > bit scared to do that. Does anyone know what might be going on there? > > x11-base/xorg-server >selected: 1.6.3.901-r2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove xorg-server and xf86-video-intel

according to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml: You could install the xorg-x11 metapackage instead of the more lightweight xorg-server. Functionally, xorg-x11 and xorg-server are the same. However, xorg-x11brings in many more packages that you probably don't need, such as a huge assortm

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the latest install-from-USB-key procedure?

> > 1) Will the old 2007.0 ISO still work? I'm not sure, but probably yes. but it's better if you download the latest ISO ;) 2) Is it *REALLY* necessary to download a 700 meg (*COMPRESSED*) full- blown system with pointy-clicky-touchie-feelie-oowee-GUI to do a commandline install that coul

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.3.37 with USE=semantic-desktop

Nepomuk also didn't build for me, while I was emerging kde-meta-4.3.3 (no overlay). I'll still check if I can solve it by myself. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Has anyone successfully built kde-4.3.73 from kde-testing overlays with > USE=semantic-desktop? If so, how did y

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

I think --noreplace should do it, but if it didn't, try adding this ebuild name to /var/lib/portage/world: =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > emerge -av --depclean wants to remove > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

you don't have to install full KDE. just emerge the packages you need, for example: emerge -av k3b gwenview it'll bring only the dependencies the packages need, which is not the entire KDE. On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:48 PM, sean wrote: > I do not run the KDE desktop here but do like and have u

[gentoo-user] synchronize portage files in a LAN

hi, I have 7 computers in local network and I want them to have always the same portage files (the ones synchronized with rsync). of course I can use crontab to make them sync at a specific time but I'm wondering if there's a better alternative. I saw a wiki page which says to create one local rsy

Re: [gentoo-user] how to know which driver a device is using?

you can try sys-apps/lshw On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > Hi, > > when i start my system from gentoo live dvd, all my hardware works > fine. but if i want to have a small system, so i removed many drivers > when i am compiling my own system. the result is some times, i do not >

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

KDE 4 doesn't have an official network manager yet. you can use net-misc/wicd, it works nice. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:17 AM, BRM wrote: > I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) > through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: > > essid_wlan0="m

[gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check

hi, I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there's one specific package I can't update, because it's a C library someone is using and the 'secure' version is causing segmentation fault on her program, so I added it to packages.mask. but as I run glsa-check in a cron job, if

Re: [gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check

it didn't work :( although I didn't know about the existence of that file! :) On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote: > > hi, > > > > I run "glsa-check -f affected" to update a Gentoo system, but there&

Re: [gentoo-user] skip some package in glsa-check

yeah, that was a typo! =/ the file I want to mask (and that's the same glsa-check wants to update) is really being masked when I run emerge. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 12/17/09, Crístian Viana wrote: > > it didn't work :( although I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium cannot sync my bookmark

you have to use the flag --enable-sync. run chromium like this: chromium-bin --enable-sync On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > i have just emerged chromium on my gentoo amd64. the chromium version > is 4.0.251.0. but the 'Sync my bookmarks' menu item is disabled. how > can

[gentoo-user] Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes

Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be unrelated), but when I rest

[gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

hi! I'm running Gentoo inside VirtualBox (on a Windows host, if that matters) and I can't make X.org work. when I try "X -configure" it says it can't load the vboxvideo library. according to some Google searches, that library really doesn't work with the newest X.org. if that's really true, is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error during checking the platform pre-requisites of app-office/openoffice-3.1.1

shouldn't perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib be listed as a dependency on the openoffice ebuild? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Yuri Ambrosio wrote: > Ok, after installing perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib no problems. Thanks ;) > > 2010/1/19 Alan McKinnon > > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambro

Re: [gentoo-user] run X.org inside VirtualBox

so you set VIDEO_CARDS="vesa"? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"? I'm using "virtualbox" on both variables and it's not working. I'll try that as you said. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6

Re: [gentoo-user] simple Q on portage utilities

maybe this works: equery -q d jpeg | sed -e "s/^/=/" | xargs emerge -j 4 -1 I don't know how do to that using only portage utilities, but sed and xargs are always allowed, I guess :) On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > again, I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] MongoDB

you can follow this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml as you already have layman, you can now add the sunrise overlay so you'll be able to merge all the packages in there, like mongodb. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:13 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Error in Emerge

pastebin can also hold the file forever :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:12:15 +0300, wins mallow wrote: > > > Please place full log to pastebin. > > maybe, you missed cc profile, gcc not found, etc ? > > Please don't use pastebin. It only holds t

[gentoo-user] restrictive equery depends

hi, is there any way I could search for packages that depend on a specific ebuild version? for example, I want to find out what packages depend exactly on virtual/jdk:1.5 (and not virtual/jdk:1.4 nor virtual/jdk-1.6). if I do this search: $ equery depends virtual/jdk:1.5 it will show me all pack

Re: [gentoo-user] restrictive equery depends

great, Helmut (and Neil), that was exactly what I was looking for! :) thanks, On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > On 28 Jan, Crístian Viana wrote: > > hi, > > > > is there any way I could search for package

[gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

hi, I'd like to remove unneeded entries on package.keywords and I was wondering if there's some program to do that (or if it's a good idea for me to try to do it :) ). for example, I may have: =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6 but later (hopefully) this package will be unmasked and that entry beco

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events

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. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] Sent from Campinas

Re: [gentoo-user] confusing emerge output

> > Is this saying that it can't update django without pulling in an unstable > eselect-python? > yes, but you're already using an unstable version of django. -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

Re: [gentoo-user] flags on a minimalist server

hi James, you have gentoolkit-0.2.4.5 and it needs python compiled with the "xml" USE flag. it has to be that way, according to the ebuild. you can add "xml" do the "USE" line on /etc/make.conf (if you want XML support to all ebuilds that need it) or add a specific line on /etc/portage/packages.us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Swing !

are you sure this Swing is Java's? I don't see any reference to Java on SuperCollider's website. and Swing is always installed in any JRE since version 1.2. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:59 AM, wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras [10-11-12 04:40]: > > On 11/12/2010 05:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >