Many thanks ferrarif5... this has had me pulling at my hair for a while.

Nice decision! To me this means a return to Gentoo's former glory

This is slightly beside the point (forgive me) but i just wanted to say thanks to Kalos, , d2_racing, Vuakko, for doing all you have to make The Fire Snake feel welcome... you have restored my hope in linux community relations.

pesche
thanks for the insight .. yet another reason i simply love gentoo
nyowe

I have been having intermittent problems with my computer. Every so often it just hangs mid process. I have tried all sorts of tweaks to no avail but i have just discovered the following in my dmesg

hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status ...

thanks dodeco... that was indeed the case though i found out the hard way by doing a complete format and reinstall ... as a side note for anyone who might need this i saved my self a lot of time by breating binaries of all the software installed on my comp (qkpg -I -nc | xargs quickpkg ) basked up ...

i seem to have an almost impossible problem updating one of my machines... emerge -uD world constantly fails right at the end of emerging automake (1.9.5) with the following error:

/bin/install -c -m 644 'configure.am' '/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.9.5/image//usr/share/automake-1.9/am/configure.am ...

i have just run revdep-rebuild which among other things wanted to re-emerge gtkhtml (this was following an insane rm -rf). however the revdep-rebuild fails at gtkhtml. i have tried emerging gtkhtml manually but it fails with the same error:-


-I/usr/include/gnome-1.0 -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr ...

thanks donjuan, you're the best

i have been trying to update my copy of transcode with no success. emerge transcode exits with the same error time and again


/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wall -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ...

this seems to have worked fine for me....
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers/352
hope it helps

I agree with stormcrowley. portage is in my view one of the greatest strengths of Gentoo, including the ability to further customise Gentoo ebuilds (in the portdir_overlay). can i just add that the gentoo community esp these forums and the available documentation and help are other great strengths ...

I am trying to emerge k3b but for some reason cdrdao-1.1.9 fails to emerge and spits out the following error

config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

------------------------------------------------------
Building scsilib : yes
Building pccts : yes
Building ...

thanks owk... that has really helped
nyowe

is it possible to convert .chm files to pdf files?? how would i go about this?
THanks
Nyowe

i have tried to emerge xchm to view some .chm files but i keep getting the following error:
if i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../art -I/usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-2.4 -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D__WXGTK__ -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGE_FILES -march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame ...

thanks Cintra.
Deleting the commented lines in the ebuild worked for me

exactly the same problem with 1.0

config.status: executing default commands
xine-lib summary:
----------------
* input plugins:
- file - net
- stdin_fifo - rtp
- http - mms
- pnm - rtsp
- dvb
- dvd (internal libs)
- vcd (external libs)
- vcdo
- cdda
- gnome-vfs
- v4l
- smbclient ...

thanks xces... That bug report will come in handy...

I may be completely out of it but where did the hardenedphp USE flag go? i would like to emerge php with the hardened php patches but php-5.0.3 seems to lack it. Is there anything i could do short of creating a new ebuild in my portdir_overlay???

Can i just add my voice to all yours.... gentoo people are the best... just think, only this morning i tried to install ZDE, got similar problems ... and now they are all solved.... Thank you to all those who contribute to these forums...!!

more problems here....
same computer now spits out errors and fails to complete when i run emerge sync... see code below
>>> Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://195.238.1.14/gentoo-portage
>>> checking server timestamp ...
welcome to rsync2.skynet.be / rsync2.be.gentoo.org

Contact: Cedric Gavage ...

just so you know... the file has been recreated after an emerge sync

The_Master.... Thanks, moving /var/cache/edb/counter worked just fine.
Thank you all....

Thanks guys for the quick replies... now here is the deal:
emerge sync, emerge metadata and portage-rescue have not helped.
See below also:
kangarame pbazira # ls -l /var/cache/edb/counter
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 Dec 5 15:56 digest-linesrv-2.1.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 Dec 5 15:56 ...