Note: Now I notice your earlier output did not have
=dev-python/python-exec-10000.2 installed.

^^ this was the issue.

Thank you for your time and reply and working solution.[/b]

Nobody able to help with this?

My options at this point seem to be

a) reinstall gentoo
b) change distro
c) never install anything again

I mean...

# emerge -upv ati-drivers

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ~] x11-drivers/ati ...

Portage now wants to reinstall / recompile a few packages all the time. I suspect it's somehow related to python but I don't know.

Is there a file somewhere that I can just delete to make portage stop wanting to reinstall the "rR" market packages?

And THIS IS EVERY TIME, if I emerge -uv world then ...

I got tired of trying to figure this out. opened the box, disconnected the drive. atleast that makes it permanently stay off.

I guess the culprit is not udev but udisks. I noticed the same ghost spin ups, until I ripped off all *kit and u* stuff (except eudev) from KDE. It interferes with hdparm (and smartd, and probably more). I never found a solution to let hdparm and udisks play nicely together though.

I'm using ...

I have a brother who likes to use Windows the few times he visits. I have a harddrive just for Windows. It's also got a few other Linux distros on it. I _never_ use or need to use this drive while using Gentoo Linux. I would like to make this harddrive go to sleep and never wake up.

If I do hdparm ...

ufoman wrote:I confirm the SSL issue. I even filed a bug to KDE bugzilla about my experiences https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160394, but I did not get any response yet.

Install qca-ossl. This is a Gentoo bug, not a KDE bug, the builds do not have qca-ossl as dep.

did you carefully follow the directions about the
pam upgrade at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml ?

Yes. I do find it a bit strange that there is no mention of how permissions are actually set they used by be set by console.perms in previous versions, though.

I have no ...

I am no longer able to use USB devices such as my scanner and my camera as a normal user (works as root, but I would like to not have to run digikam and kooka and such as root).

The user is a member of the plugdev and usb groups.

I noticed this problem after "upgrading" to sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 ...

These arts use flags:

[ebuild R ] kde-base/arts-3.5.5 USE="alsa artswrappersuid esd jack mp3 nas vorbis xinerama -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility" 0 kB

And these kdelibs use flags:
..
[ebuild U ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5 [3.5.4-r2] USE="alsa arts cups doc fam* spell ssl tiff xinerama ...

Bob P, those sound like some valid points, is there way way to find out how many routers there are and who they're controlled by? Couldn't every node log the other nodes it's connected to, and send this info to a central server, a roadmap of the network. I know this defeats the purpose of the ...

It's nice to find Gherald has bookmarked me above :)

I put out a nice Firefox and Mozilla 1.x tutorial at LinuxReviews called How to browse the Internet using the Mozilla 1.x and Mozilla Firefox browsers : Learn how you can browse effectively using the keyboard, filter away advertisements, make ...

New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered
http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/
writes It is unclear why the Gentoo patch/version of the 2.4.26 kernel is safe using this config...

I do now know WHY but this is the ONLY kernel I know about that can not be crashed by anyone with shell ...

BitlBee http://www.bitlbee.org/ is a very smooth IRC Gateway for MSN / ICQ / Jabber / Yahoo.

Basically your IM users look like normal IRC users when you connect to a bitlbee server using a any standard irc client.

The best thing about Bitlbee is that you do not even need a irc client! Simply use ...

I've used this for quite a while and I was quite annoyed with this, out of the blue, stopped working (because I had recompiled XFree).

XFree must be compiled without IPv6 support. Xdmcp does not work if XFree is compiled with IPv6 support.

echo "x11-base/xfree -ipv6" >> /etc/portage/package.use ...

Annonserad på http://www.gentoo.se/ (2004-05-26)

Snille Igu har fikset Norske Gentoo speil for oss! Disse har vært operative en stund, men jeg får ut i fra at det ikke er offentliggjort i påvente av at vi får ut fingeren og gjør noe med http://www.gentoo.no/

Lokalsert i Norge? Legg dette til /etc/make.conf :

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror ...

I've got IPv6 up and running on my LAN. When I wanted to use ip6tables to secure my problems I ran into some trouble.

When I tried to save the rules with

/etc/init.d/ip6tables save

like I did when first using iptables I found that

ip6tables-save and ip6tables-restore are missing. (when ...