Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread dhk
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Gentoo, >> >> The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The >> Xfce Configuration Guide", I did >> >># emerge -avt xfce4-meta >> >> followed by >> >>$ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread dhk
Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Possibly you installed something other than xfce4-meta? >> >> firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils >> [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 >> firefly ~ # > > I'm just seconding fireflys' report. I suspect xfce4 expects y

[gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
by: missing keyword) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee? >> >> I tried dev-java/sun-j2ee ~amd64 java in /etc/portage/package.keywords >> and tried adding ACCEPT_LICENSE="sun-bcla-j2ee

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >>> >>>> How do I find out the missing keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee? >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Dale wrote: >> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 15:19:57 dhk wrote: >>>> >>>>> How do I find out the missing ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:06:50 dhk wrote: >> Another question about this. >> >> Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and >> JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set >> th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 02/11/2010 12:06 PM, dhk wrote: >> >> Where's a good place to set J2EE_HOME (/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1/) and >> JAVA_HOME? Should it be in each user's profile? If I wanted to set >> them globally for all users should they go in /etc/profile ? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:10:06 dhk wrote: > >> My /usr/bin/java was linked to run-java-tool, don't know what that is. >> # ll /usr/bin/java >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 11 11:20 /usr/bin/java -> run-java-tool > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-11 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:58:52 dhk wrote: >> I put /usr/bin/java back the way it was. >> ln -s /usr/bin/run-java-tool /usr/bin/java >> >> I set the CLASSPATH, got it from java-config --runtime >> export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/opt/sun-j

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyword for dev-java/sun-j2ee

2010-02-14 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 12 February 2010 00:58:52 dhk wrote: >>> I put /usr/bin/java back the way it was. >>> ln -s /usr/bin/run-java-tool /usr/bin/java >>> >>> I set the CLASSPATH, got it from java-config --runtime >>>

[gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-08 Thread dhk
Is it possible to embed a terminal window in a gtk window? I want to be able to run a text program as usual, but have it wrapped in the GTK window so I can scroll output and other stuff to a textview. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window

2010-03-09 Thread dhk
Damian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, dhk wrote: >> Is it possible to embed a terminal window in a gtk window? >> >> I want to be able to run a text program as usual, but have it wrapped in >> the GTK window so I can scroll output and other stuff to a textvi

[gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-11 Thread dhk
topped working after an upgrade. Is this something to do with xfce4, Firefox, or something else? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound with xfce4 and Firefox

2010-03-12 Thread dhk
Daniel Wagener wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:29:09 -0500 > dhk wrote: > >> I don't use sound very often, but recently I noticed when I play news >> videos in Firefox there isn't any sound coming through the headphones. >> It's an Intel 32bit box wi

[gentoo-user] bluez

2010-03-13 Thread dhk
the difference and when would one be used in place of the other two? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] Custom Stage4

2010-04-11 Thread dhk
to exclude that and just about everything else I installed over the years, but have it installed when I run the "emerge -uDN world" command. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Custom Stage4

2010-04-11 Thread dhk
On 04/11/2010 03:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:45:09 -0400, dhk wrote: > >> For example open office is almost 10 Gigs, > > How did that happen? It's around 290MB here, and that's before > compression. The package built when I installed it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
or a stage4 install. You may want to look into that: a stage4 install. The documentation is at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 and it looks pretty good and simple. This may be the way you want to go. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > dhk [10-04-18 16:20]: >> On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

2010-04-18 Thread dhk
On 04/18/2010 12:30 PM, dhk wrote: > On 04/18/2010 10:37 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> dhk [10-04-18 16:20]: >>> On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes, you should be able to,

[gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
ff or is it unrecoverable? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my data gone?

2010-04-29 Thread dhk
On 04/29/2010 06:53 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 30 April 2010 00:43:41 dhk wrote: >> While setting up a new disk I accidentally ran "mke2fs /dev/sda1" >> instead of "mke2fs /dev/hda1". When I realized the mistake (about 2 >> seconds later) I

[gentoo-user] gSoap

2010-06-19 Thread dhk
I recently installed gSoap and have be trying to use build the examples in tutorials ( Such as: http://websrv.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html ). Since everything seems pretty simple and breaks on step 2, I was wondering if it has something to do with the ebuild. gsoap is installed as follows. # eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome

2010-06-23 Thread dhk
Also why doesn't alacarte have shutdown and some other stuff for adding and removing in the main menu? Shutting down from the gnome desktop would make things easier. How can I get that option back? Thanks, --dhk

[gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread dhk
www-plugins/adobe-flash Latest version available: 10.1.53.64 Latest version installed: 10.1.53.64 Size of files: 4,643 kB Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/ Description: Adobe Flash Player License: AdobeFlash-10.1 Thanks, --dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Flash (10.1.53.64) Not Working

2010-06-27 Thread dhk
On 06/27/2010 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2010 16:00:04 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> On Sunday 27 June 2010, dhk wrote: >>> Adobe Flash use to work on my amd64 box, but after the last upgrade it >>> stopped working. When I visit sites that use it I'm

[gentoo-user] Java EE 6

2010-07-01 Thread dhk
om/j2ee/sdk_1.3/ Description: Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition Development Kit License: sun-bcla-j2ee How do I find Java EE 6? Thanks, --dhk

[gentoo-user] Sync'ing with Windows CE

2010-07-23 Thread dhk
erminal on my Gentoo box? I see in the app-pda (emerge --search @app-pda) there are quite a few options, but they're all masked. Thanks in advance. --dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] boot log

2010-08-05 Thread dhk
On 08/05/2010 03:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:19:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt >> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find >> what they are. > > Set rc_logger="YES

[gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop

2009-09-19 Thread dhk
I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libtool links are broken. There were links to the following files, but now those files don't exist. /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh /usr/share/libtool/config.sub /usr/shar

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >> I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now >> can't run ./configure to rebuild it. It looks like all my libtool links >> are broken. There were links to the followin

Re: [gentoo-user] libtool

2009-10-06 Thread dhk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote: >>>> I recently ran a make clean on a C/Gtk program I'm developing and now >>>> can't run ./configur

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > after emerge --sync && emerge --update world --deep my keyboard (in X) > does not work anymore. Since I am switching to slim after boot, I > cannot even change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I guess something > went wrong with the Xorg-update. > > I am now using a live-

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Mick wrote: > What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > fdisk: > === > Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier

[gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
e window doesn't even come up. How can I fix this? Does anyone know the command line for "Edit Menus"? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-12 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >> selected "Edit Menus" and after making

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: > Anton Bobov wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote: >>> After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main >>> application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and >>> selected "Edi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome "Edit Menus"

2009-10-13 Thread dhk
Anton Bobov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote: >> When I run alacarte I get the following error. >> >> $ alacarte >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in >> main() >>

[gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-14 Thread dhk
penjnlp and net-misc/icaclient . Thanks, --dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with a fetch restricted (must be manually downloaded)

2009-10-15 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > dhk wrote: >> Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a >> fetch restriction? >> >> Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually >> downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usua

[gentoo-user] Emerging app-text/spellutils-0.7 fails

2009-10-30 Thread dhk
Below is the output from the failed emerge of app-text/spellutils-0.7 . The error is an access violation, but I don't know why. It seems to be the /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo file but that file doesn't exist. # ls -l /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo ls: cannot ac

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.5.4 crashes

2009-11-12 Thread dhk
time xulrunner was updated and there was some blocking with a library which was unmerged and then reemerged. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 3.5.4 crashes

2009-11-12 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 11/12/2009 05:18 AM, dhk wrote: >> Recently I updated firefox to 3.5.4 and now it crashes on some web pages >> that use java script... > > Can you give some example pages? Are those crashes 100% reproducible? > > > Yes they are 100% reproducible.

[gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-03 Thread dhk
but the clean install fails. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: > >> I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors saying >> no ati, vesa, fbdev modules and then no windows. > > Please post the actual error messages. > > The follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
walt wrote: > On 12/04/2009 11:39 AM, dhk wrote: >> ... >> I also ran "set opengl set ati" but that didn't make a difference, now I >> don't know how to reverse that cammand. > > I think you mean "eselect opengl set ati", don't you?

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/4/2009 2:39 PM, dhk wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:14:52 -0500, dhk wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm using xfce4 and when I run startx or startxfce4 I get errors

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-04 Thread dhk
David wrote: > dhk wrote: > >> I hate to ask . . . how do I recompile all drivers? >> >> > > This should do it; > emerge $(qlist -C -I x11-drivers/) -1av > > also make sure hald is running; > rc-update show > > do you have support for evdev incl

Re: [gentoo-user] X fails after new install

2009-12-08 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:36:25PM -0500, dhk wrote > >> I started hald and rebuilt the drivers: startx still fails. > > I've hard-masked hal and dbus (and pam) in /etc/portage/package.mask > and X runs OK. > > From your messages, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I solve "emerge @preserved-rebuild" loop?

2009-12-08 Thread dhk
gt; revdep-rebuild won't help you here, as the binaries are not broken. It will > only confirm internal consistency once preserved-rebuild appears to have > sorted itself out. > > I have the same problem, but the "emerge -av1 util-linux" has blocking issues with sys-fs/e2fsprogs. Whenever I remove sys-fs stuff I usually regret it. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 'Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap'

2009-12-11 Thread dhk
Is evdev complied into your kernel? It should be. Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I emerged xorg-server-1.6.5-r1, as well as > x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0, xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0, > xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0 and xf86-input-evdev-2.3.1 and now I can't get > past the xdm login screen. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown

2010-01-04 Thread dhk
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system > does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then > the XFCE session is closed. > > Unable to perform shutdown > error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determ

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-06 Thread dhk
n. Anyone know how I find out which one I need? I pretty sure I need a gst-plugin, but not sure. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2010-01-07 Thread dhk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:33:14 dhk wrote: >> When do I need gstreamer? When I run the "emerge --search >> @media-plugins/gst-plugins" command I get a lot of results and I have no >> idea what I need to install for what I want to do. >

[gentoo-user] Making a usb Demo Disk

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
somewhere between making a liveusb and stage 4. Thanks, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up system time caused messed up file modification times...

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
ltime. I found my bios time was not right, I forget why, but I would set the time in the bios and after rebooting it was wrong again. I think I was sync'ing the time with hwclock and since I was only six hours off it eventually cleared up overnight. Also check /etc/conf.d/clock and make sure you don't have anything unusual in there. dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a usb Demo Disk

2010-01-25 Thread dhk
Kyle Bader wrote: >> Is there a way to install a program that runs on Gentoo on a usb stick? >> I would like to be able to booted to the usb stick and run the program >> in a Gentoo environment? Basically I would like to make a demo disk >> with the program and just enough of the OS so it works.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all hard-links and soft-links?

2010-02-03 Thread dhk
th. find -L -type l I would recommend testing these in /tmp or in a subdirectory first before running them from /. dhk

[gentoo-user] USB barcode scanner

2009-05-03 Thread dhk
I have a 2-dimensional usb bar code scanner that I'm trying to get working ( This is the exact one if interested: http://www.barcodesinc.com/metrologic/ms1690.htm ). It scans, but nothing gets displayed. How can I get the focused window/terminal to understand that the device should be treated

[gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
1.3.3 file is causing a problem somehow. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk Dan Dennedy wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:54 AM, dhk wrote: Dan Dennedy wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:08 AM, dhk wrote: dhk wrote: Carl Karsten wrote: On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 5:27 AM, dhk wrote: I don't edit video very

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and reinstalled kino

Re: [gentoo-user] Kino Crashes Opening Files

2009-05-15 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: dhk wrote: I originally posted this question to the kino group. The chain of emails is below. The problem is that kino crashes when opening a file, clicking on a folder that has a video file in it, or when passing it in on the command line. I removed and

[gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-20 Thread dhk
Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and then firef

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-21 Thread dhk
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can n

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-23 Thread dhk
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can n

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes

2009-05-24 Thread dhk
Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem woul

[gentoo-user] CUPS and Lexmark x7675

2009-05-26 Thread dhk
I have a Lexmark x7675 printer connected to my network. When trying to add a printer through the cups interface, Lexmark doesn't appear in the list of manufactures. Will this printer work with CUPS/Gentoo (amd64)? How can it be set up? Thanks, dhk

[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Setup

2009-06-10 Thread dhk
until then I'd like to be able to stop whatever is doing it. 2) The sdpd process, I don't know why it didn't get installed and if that's causing me problems. The documentation to setup bluetooth seemed easy, I don't know why it didn't work. Thanks, --dhk

[gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? > lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. > cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. > lsusb # This

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: > >> I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a >> usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the >> mount. How can I find the device? >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-29 Thread dhk
Dale wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: >> >>> I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a >>> usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the >>> mount. How can I find th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device

2009-06-30 Thread dhk
Stroller wrote: > > On 29 Jun 2009, at 13:53, dhk wrote: >>>> ... >>>> What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? >>> >>> Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That >>> appears to be what you'

[gentoo-user] Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? Thanks, dave

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning Out /usr/portage/distfiles/

2009-02-22 Thread dhk
Rodrigo Lazo wrote: > dhk writes: > >> Is there an emerge command or something to 1) clean out >> /usr/portage/distfiles/ for all but the most recent version of the >> packages installed and 2) to clean it out completely? >> >> Thanks, >> > > ecl

[gentoo-user] Telxon

2009-03-05 Thread dhk
Is it possible to put Gentoo on a Telxon gun? If so, how would I go about doing it? Thanks, dave

[gentoo-user] emerge Error

2009-03-12 Thread dhk
All, After sync'ing yesterday and getting a whole bunch of packages evince had problems and gnome never got installed. Today after sync'ing I get the following which doesn't make sense to me. Can someone help. # emerge -uDNp world !!! CONFIG_PROTECT is empty These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge Error

2009-03-12 Thread dhk
Justin wrote: > dhk schrieb: > >> - app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.4 (Change USE: +cairo) > > > This line tells you what to do: > > reemerge poppler-bindings with USE="cairo" > That worked, Thanks.

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-13 Thread dhk
revdep-rebuild is flagging rhythmbox as requiring libtotem-plparser.so.10 . After the last upgrade all I have installed in /usr/lib64/ is libtotem-plparser.so.12 . Should I just make a link or do I need to install an older version? or should I wait for a rhythmbax update? Other similar files in

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-21 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:44:04PM -0400, dhk wrote revdep-rebuild is flagging rhythmbox as requiring libtotem-plparser.so.10 . After the last upgrade all I have installed in /usr/lib64/ is libtotem-plparser.so.12 . Should I just make a link or do I need to install an older

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-24 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 03:25:05PM -0400, dhk wrote It looks like the bugreport at... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 is identical to yours. No solutions proposed yet. But do check that URL daily. It's the most likely place to find a fix to your pr

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object

2009-03-25 Thread dhk
Walter Dnes wrote: After a few more minutes of looking at the bug list, it appears that it's caused by the stable build being rusty. Given the references to "lib64" in your output, I assume you're running on amd64. Is that correct? If so, a quick-n-dirty workaround might be to add the follow

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird Message Filter Script

2009-03-28 Thread dhk
Is there a way to execute a script after a message filter moves an email to a folder? Right now, when I have the message select, I have to View->Message Source and then save it in another directory. Then my program strips off the email header and parses the xml. What I want to do is automati

[gentoo-user] gdb error

2009-03-29 Thread dhk
When using gdb I get the following error as soon as I hit gtk_init() in may main. (gdb) 60gtk_set_locale (); (gdb) 61gtk_init(&argc, &argv); (gdb) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Error while reading shared library symbols: Cannot find new threads: generic error Cann

[gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
How can I modify the CFLAGS before emerging a package? I want to add -g2 to the compile of libxml2 so I can step through their functions. If I add -g2 to CFLAGS in make.conf it will do it for all packages which is not what I want. Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
u can use the "/etc/portage/env/category/package" to declare environment variables for specific packages... 2008/5/25 Erik Ruotsalainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:02:50AM +, dhk wrote: How can I modify the CFLAGS before emerging a package? I want to add -

[gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-05-24 Thread dhk
Two problems along the same line. After doing an "emerge -C cvs ssmtp" and "revdep-rebuild --ignore" it seems that there are still traces of the two programs around. 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-28 Thread dhk
I tried it, but I still can't step into the libxml2 library functions. Thanks, Dave Alex Schuster wrote: dhk writes: Does this mean the source was removed after the emerge? If so how can I keep the source. Try adding "nostrip" to your FEATURES. Also I like the idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting CFLAGS for a single build

2008-05-29 Thread dhk
Alex Schuster wrote: Anthony Metcalf writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Um, I meand -nostrip, as I wrote in the example below. But I just tried for myself - I see the -g2 (multiple times), but after building, stripping takes place, even with the one-time FEATURES=-nostrip emerge -1 libxml2 approach:

[gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-06 Thread dhk
Two problems along the same line. After doing an "emerge -C cvs ssmtp" and "revdep-rebuild --ignore" it seems that there are still traces of the two programs around. 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a Blocking proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a B

[gentoo-user] ssmtp/sendmail file collision

2008-06-09 Thread dhk
I want to install sendmail, but when ssmtp is installed a file collision with mailer.conf is detected. ssmtp was also installed previously with -mailwrapper in the USE and has since been unmerged. The problem started when taking -mailwrapper out of the ssmtp USE variable. The emerge trace for

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp/sendmail file collision

2008-06-09 Thread dhk
Chema Alonso wrote: dhk escribió: I want to install sendmail, but when ssmtp is installed a file collision with mailer.conf is detected. ssmtp was also installed previously with -mailwrapper in the USE and has since been unmerged. The problem started when taking -mailwrapper out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB question

2008-06-19 Thread dhk
Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:54:28 Florian Philipp wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:34:35 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just compiled a new kernel. I then mounted the boot partition, copied the new bzimage across, along with .config and system.map. I

[gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event

2008-06-21 Thread dhk
The following message is displayed on boot. The system works fine despite the message, but I'd still like to know what the cause is and fix it. udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Any ideas? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event

2008-06-21 Thread dhk
Ward Poelmans wrote: 2008/6/21 dhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Check your udev rules. I think he tries to make a symlink to /dev/fb but it's a directory so he can't. Ward I looked in /etc/ud

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

2008-07-18 Thread dhk
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Andrew Tchernoivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.07.08 01:41]: Are the characters on the screen readable? I had this problem too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your grub.conf Why should that help with grub? Did not found any h

[gentoo-user] tovid/todisc and USE variables

2008-08-03 Thread dhk
How do you find out what USE variables a build can have? I recently got a new disk and reinstalled everything. Now tovid doesn't seem to work and I think it's because I don't have all the USE variable that I use to have. The problem I'm having with tovid is it runs very slow and never finis

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