I avoided recreating the partition by moving the parent directory out of the way and then restoring it in the right place. Now I've just got 72k of junk which I can ignore.

If anyone does have any suggestions for getting rid of it I would still appreciate it as part of my ongoing education.

I must admit I was hoping for something a little less drastic but if I don't get any suggestions or find anything myself, I think I'll have to take the pain in the morning.

Having had problems on a partition, I'm now left with what should be a file which has an obviously corrupted directory entry that I cannot delete - and I have to.

It should be:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root
but it shows as:
d--S------ 2 root 512
Running as root, I'm not allowed to chown, chmod, rm ...

As I understand you have some perl modules (.pm) and you need to put them some place where Perl can find them.
I would place them under
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/
or something similar, depending on your Perl version.

Not quite...

There's a bin directory containing *.pl.
Each .pl has lines ...

I've found an application I want to try out (logrep). It's written in perl and the modules expect to find other modules in a named subdirectory. I can't work out where I ought to put this directory tree.

The website says the rpm puts the files in /usr/local/logrep but (apart from there only being a ...

Thanks. It works now.

I'm trying to get bridging working with the testing baselayout as it simplifies the setup dramatically. I've set up br0 in /etc/conf./net to use eth0 and eth2 and I start net.br0.

It looks like the bridge is up using ifconfig and brctl but closer inspection shows that eth[02] are not up. Just ...

Has anyone who doesn't want xv got past the HAVE_XV failure? I've built xorg-x11 without xv, I have -xv in use and I'm still getting this problem with xine-lib-1.0.

I've tried all the ideas in this thread and also bodged the ebuild to configure --disable-static-xv but I always get the same error.

That's the first one.

10 lines down is the other one with I guess that if you don't comment the second one then make will try to build the files before installing them.

I found the same problem so I compared the ebuilds for -r8 with -r7.

My "fix" was to comment out the extra statements for building shared objects. If you look through the ebuild you should see two separate lines which have emake so and emake soinstall
Just put "#" at the start of these lines and ...

Sussed it In case anyone else gets in the same mess...

I messed up /var/tmp which is where lpoptions tries to store a temporary file but failed as the user didn't have enough permissions. Once I sorted /var/tmp then it started working

This started when I spotted I didn't get the printer options under gnome - and I don't fancy trying to get that going with sudo

I've also asked on a cups list but no response there yet

I can't manage to get access to the options in my printer's ppd file as a normal user under cups (and sometimes printing seems to go nowhere but one step at a time). To try and remove as many variables as possible, the simplest proof I can demonstrate is to use lpoptions -l
As root I get a list of ...

Thanks SPW.

More hunting today and I've seen some reasonably priced a/b/g access points. I've decided to go for the 3-Com one because it's in stock and the D-Link isn't available yet. Also I like the look of the retractable antenna on the pccard and, with no particular reason not to, I feel safer ...

I guess that oldfartsxm1 is referring to the BBC micro which was an early microcomputer from (if I remember right) Acorn. The BBC name was because there was some sort of tie in with TV programmes.

I'm attempting to go wireless and, after reading up on it, for various reasons, a prism54 chipset sounds like what I need.

I've spent what seems like days going round the forums, google and any number of distributors' and manufacturers' web sites but I can't find anywhere that tells me what ...

I've got mine all working now too

I had to delete kernel-2.eclass to make emerge sync give me a good one. At least emerge -Dup world completes anyway.

I had the same problem. The output with --debug was a good clue though. :wink:

All I had to do was edit the ebuild and delete the last line which contained ^L`
Looks like the ebuild has got a bit corrupted.

EDIT: fwiw I also had to fix the following ebuilds for emerge -Dup world

libdvdcss-1.2.8 ...

I'm running 2.6.0-beta11-r2 on my T20 and it's fine for normal use. I'm chasing down some wrinkles still (which is how I found your post). The relevant parts of my config are:
#
# Graphics support
#
# CONFIG_FB is not set
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set

#
# Console display driver support ...

I've been scouring everywhere for a solution to the problem where trying to display XVideo just gives a blue screen. Other threads discuss i810 issues but I don't have one of those.

I just found at least part of the answer on a debian laptop list archive. Thank you google :!:

On my Thinkpad T20 ...

Here is my command chain for mounting a partition that was set up with the 2.4 cryptoAPI:


# hashalot ripemd160 | losetup -p0 -e twofish-cbc-256 /dev/loop/1 /dev/hda3
# mount /dev/loop/1 /home



How have you managed to get a 256 bit key? I've been driven mad over the last couple of days trying ...

Looking at the ebuild, configure has -disable-java and the user setup has no java. Again does this mean no java?

I've looked at configure --help and it means exactly what it says on the tin.

I've changed the ebuild to try it out and I'm rebuilding. It'd be done by now but I let my disk fill up ...

I'm trying out 1.1.46 and I want to use a jdbc driver but can't make it work. Has anyone succeeded?

Looking round, a few things look like they may be relevant. Again, anyone know for sure?

The settings, security enable java checkbox clears itself when closing preferences. Does this mean I can't ...

Thanks db_404, this has had to go the back burner for now.

So I copy some spreadsheets I've been using in 1.0.1 and they seem OK but opening takes for ever and saving just fails. Playing around further I notice that the number of sheets reported (bottom left) is way high. :(

As I couldn't get things to look right, I decided to try openoffice-bin and ...