[gentoo-user] Java and glsa-check
I have multiple systems affected by this: moriah ~ # glsa-check -p affected Checking GLSA 200804-20 The following updates will be performed for this GLSA: For the following packages, no upgrade path exists: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.20moriah ~ # Yet 1.5.0.20 is supposed to be unaffected. Is this the slotting issue bug 106677 is talking about? I currently have java 1.5 and 1.6, jdk and jre's present on in various combinations - all versions look like they should be ok, all want to apply the glsa but say there is no upgrade path ... BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- , then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ? Trawl the archives over the last 60 months for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts on this very subject -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?
091020 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- , then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ? Trawl the archives over the last 60 months for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts on this very subject Were there netbooks in 2004 ?? Anyway, I have most of them saved. However, others may have experiences to relate for everyone's benefit. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Dispatch-conf and vimdiff
Hi all, since recent ~x86 updates (maybe the latest vim update) vimdiff doesn't work well with dispatch-conf. It opens 4 buffers and then stops because of an error. It seems that the configuration I found on the wiki doesn't work anymore. This is the config line : merge=vimdiff -c \'saveas %s\' -c next -c \'setlocal noma readonly\' -c prev %s %s Any idea for the changes I should make ? Thanks, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:52:47 +0100, Mick wrote: Could it be that all this is caused by KDE-4.3 going stable? Perhaps I should now bite the bullet unmerge all my KDE-3.5 packages and start a mammoth emerge of KDE-4 ? That could be the case, so either install KDE4 or mask it. -- Neil Bothwick A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, Wish you were here. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Mick writes: Could it be that all this is caused by KDE-4.3 going stable? Perhaps I should now bite the bullet unmerge all my KDE-3.5 packages and start a mammoth emerge of KDE-4 ? Uh, I am running KDE 4 for half a year now, but it still lacks stability. I still like it, and I can live with that, and also had some problems with KDE3, so I just jumped to the next version. But I can understand why people are disappointed with it and stick to KDE3. So, emerging KDE4 probably is a good idea, but unless you need to remove it, I would keep KDE3 for a while. I have both, and no problems. I think I have to do some bug reports now. I have a loong list of KDE4 problems I noted, and I hoped switching from 4.2 to 4.3 would solve many of them, but actually not much did change. Well, at last konqueror's bookmark editor is working now, this was annoying and made me wonder why such a bug made it into a release. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: Mick writes: Could it be that all this is caused by KDE-4.3 going stable? Perhaps I should now bite the bullet unmerge all my KDE-3.5 packages and start a mammoth emerge of KDE-4 ? Uh, I am running KDE 4 for half a year now, but it still lacks stability. I still like it, and I can live with that, and also had some problems with KDE3, so I just jumped to the next version. But I can understand why people are disappointed with it and stick to KDE3. So, emerging KDE4 probably is a good idea, but unless you need to remove it, I would keep KDE3 for a while. I have both, and no problems. I think I have to do some bug reports now. I have a loong list of KDE4 problems I noted, and I hoped switching from 4.2 to 4.3 would solve many of them, but actually not much did change. Well, at last konqueror's bookmark editor is working now, this was annoying and made me wonder why such a bug made it into a release. I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so. How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?
If anyone plans to try running Gentoo on the Nokia Desklet 3G I'd be interested in talking with you. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Mick writes: 2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so. How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4? Kmail is running fine. There are some problems, but there also were with 3.5, it crashed quite often, sometimes several times a day. With version 4, I had a single crash only. My bug list for kontact/kmail: - I can have multiple mail folders opened at once, which is nice, but new mails do not appear then. They show up in the folder tree, but so display them, I have to change into another folder and than back. - While fetching new mail, I cannot open a new mail folder. - New folders (created on the IMAP mail server) are not shown automatically. - I can search for messages, but cannot open the ones I found. - Saved attachments were empty, but I cannot reproduce that now, it's probably fixed. - Sometimes when logging in, kontact complains it is already running and asks whether it should really be started. If I say yes, it crashes, if I say no, it does not start. No problem when starting manually the nest time. Konqueror is great. New features: - It allows opening of recently closed objects. - When it dies, at next start a dialog asks whether the last session should be restored. The restored session also has all the history, so I can use the back button. Konqueror bugs: - I always have garbage in the status line, showing parts of other opened tabs. - Sometimes, a tab has scrolling problems. That is, I scroll down a little, but only the very top ob the page is updated. If I scroll fast, more is updated, if I scroll a whole page down, the display is okay. Workaround is to open the same page in a new tab. - When saving images by drag'nDrop into a dolphin folder I am always being asked whether to copy, move or to crate a shortcut, even if I press the Ctrl key. - For a few times, the mouse vanished when inside konqueror. Did not happen since I use 4.3. - With KDE 4.3, the bookmark editor crashes when moving a second entry to another location. - Also with KDE 4.3, mouse gestures in konqueror did not work at all, but this is fixed. - Oh, and also the fish:// protocol is working again! So, these are minor problems only, both kmail and konqueror run better than in KDE 3.5, at least for me. But I do not use konqueror as file manager any more, I am trying out dolphin. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: Mick writes: 2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so. How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4? Kmail is running fine. There are some problems, but there also were with 3.5, it crashed quite often, sometimes several times a day. With version 4, I had a single crash only. My bug list for kontact/kmail: - I can have multiple mail folders opened at once, which is nice, but new mails do not appear then. They show up in the folder tree, but so display them, I have to change into another folder and than back. - While fetching new mail, I cannot open a new mail folder. - New folders (created on the IMAP mail server) are not shown automatically. - I can search for messages, but cannot open the ones I found. - Saved attachments were empty, but I cannot reproduce that now, it's probably fixed. - Sometimes when logging in, kontact complains it is already running and asks whether it should really be started. If I say yes, it crashes, if I say no, it does not start. No problem when starting manually the nest time. Konqueror is great. New features: - It allows opening of recently closed objects. - When it dies, at next start a dialog asks whether the last session should be restored. The restored session also has all the history, so I can use the back button. Konqueror bugs: - I always have garbage in the status line, showing parts of other opened tabs. - Sometimes, a tab has scrolling problems. That is, I scroll down a little, but only the very top ob the page is updated. If I scroll fast, more is updated, if I scroll a whole page down, the display is okay. Workaround is to open the same page in a new tab. - When saving images by drag'nDrop into a dolphin folder I am always being asked whether to copy, move or to crate a shortcut, even if I press the Ctrl key. - For a few times, the mouse vanished when inside konqueror. Did not happen since I use 4.3. - With KDE 4.3, the bookmark editor crashes when moving a second entry to another location. - Also with KDE 4.3, mouse gestures in konqueror did not work at all, but this is fixed. - Oh, and also the fish:// protocol is working again! So, these are minor problems only, both kmail and konqueror run better than in KDE 3.5, at least for me. But I do not use konqueror as file manager any more, I am trying out dolphin. Sounds promising - I've had no Kmail 3.5 crashes that I can think of so it may be OK with 4 too. Thanks for sharing. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 13:00:04 Mick wrote: I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so. How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4? KMail is fine on 4.3.2. I had issues with it randomly crashing when I moved mails around, but that seems to have been sorted with the latest version. Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. - randomly suddenly using 100% cpu when visiting forum sites (NO flash). Only workaround is to kill konqueror - fish:// does not work - last merged toolbar item in toolbars randomly moves around, often triggered by switching between filemanager and browser modes - plugin support is awful. Forget AJAX, it does not work which counts out gmail and half the support sites I use at work -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.6: Window Maker received signal 6
Hello, I recently upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 (gcc-4.3.4); followed all info on gentoo web site. Window Maker does not start; it pops up an error window: Window Maker received signal 6. I think the X server is running okay. I have re emerged windowmaker-0.92.0-r7 but the problem persists. Next I tried to start windowmaker with a default GNUstep/ and it works. I am wondering whether there is a fix for this without having to rebuild my customization into the GNUstep/ files. Thanks for inputs. -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 11:05:37 Philip Webb wrote: 091020 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 20 October 2009 05:59:07 Philip Webb wrote: Does anyone know how far it's feasible to compile pkgs on a desktop -- I have a powerful machine with upto-date Gentoo for everyday use -- , then copy the results via USB stick into a netbook ? Trawl the archives over the last 60 months for Neil Bothwick's detailed posts on this very subject Were there netbooks in 2004 ?? Anyway, I have most of them saved. However, others may have experiences to relate for everyone's benefit. See children, this is what happens when you ask yourself daft questions like How many days in a month, and how many months make 60 days? You make big booboo typos. Learn from Uncle Alan and don't do it... :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 20 October 2009 13:00:04 Mick wrote: I really, really depend on Kmail and to some extent on Konqueror (fish, webdav and also as a file manager). This is an old laptop overdue for replacement - so could hold onto KDE3.5 with this one and jump straight into KDE4 when I buy a new laptop within a month or so. How is Kmail/Konqueror behaving on KDE4? KMail is fine on 4.3.2. I had issues with it randomly crashing when I moved mails around, but that seems to have been sorted with the latest version. Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. - randomly suddenly using 100% cpu when visiting forum sites (NO flash). Only workaround is to kill konqueror - fish:// does not work - last merged toolbar item in toolbars randomly moves around, often triggered by switching between filemanager and browser modes - plugin support is awful. Forget AJAX, it does not work which counts out gmail and half the support sites I use at work Oh dear! Have you confirmed these on different machines - just in case? I have removed pambase from world (how did that end up in there?) and rebuilt PyQt4 with sql and webkit, as well as net-libs/libgadu with threads that came up when I tried to run update world. Now I have a lorry load of KDE4 packages wanting to be installed: 238 packages (3 upgrades, 131 new, 103 in new slots, 1 reinstall, 2 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 484,302 kB Conflict: 2 blocks I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Alan McKinnon writes: KMail is fine on 4.3.2. I had issues with it randomly crashing when I moved mails around, but that seems to have been sorted with the latest version. I also had some problems, when moving some thousands of IMAP mails, but I also had this with 3.5. I am using thunderbird for this, which is far more stable. Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. They do here. I have configured them to have a blank as separator instead of the colon, maybe this is also set different in your setup? Oh my, I can't imagine to live without the shortcuts anymore. But then I said the same for mouse gestures, and had to live for half a year without. - randomly suddenly using 100% cpu when visiting forum sites (NO flash). Only workaround is to kill konqueror Did not see this (yet). - fish:// does not work Had problems with 4.1 and 4.2, works with 4.3.2. What error do you get? - plugin support is awful. Forget AJAX, it does not work which counts out gmail and half the support sites I use at work Do you have an example so I can try to reproduce this (I do not use gmail)? Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Mick writes: I have removed pambase from world (how did that end up in there?) and rebuilt PyQt4 with sql and webkit, as well as net-libs/libgadu with threads that came up when I tried to run update world. Now I have a lorry load of KDE4 packages wanting to be installed: 238 packages (3 upgrades, 131 new, 103 in new slots, 1 reinstall, 2 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 484,302 kB Conflict: 2 blocks I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? I see no problem in just installing them, without removing KDE 3.5. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org: Mick writes: I have removed pambase from world (how did that end up in there?) and rebuilt PyQt4 with sql and webkit, as well as net-libs/libgadu with threads that came up when I tried to run update world. Now I have a lorry load of KDE4 packages wanting to be installed: 238 packages (3 upgrades, 131 new, 103 in new slots, 1 reinstall, 2 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 484,302 kB Conflict: 2 blocks I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? I see no problem in just installing them, without removing KDE 3.5. Hmm ... disk space. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 15:30:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. Works fine here. Period ;-) - fish:// does not work Dito. 4.3.2, though. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 15:44:07 Mick wrote: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall everything from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? KDE:3 and KDE:4 happily co-exist in much the same way that gnome and KDE:4 happily co-exist -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 15:59:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Mick writes: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? I see no problem in just installing them, without removing KDE 3.5. But you'll need to add kdeprefix to your USE flags. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 20 October 2009 15:44:07 Mick wrote: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall everything from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? KDE:3 and KDE:4 happily co-exist in much the same way that gnome and KDE:4 happily co-exist -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Bloody thing: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =dev-libs/soprano-2.3.0[clucene,dbus,raptor,java]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/soprano-2.3.1 (Change USE: +java) (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kmail-4.3.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) Why on earth does kmail need jdk? How can I avoid installing java? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 15:48:41 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Konqueror - well now, that's a different story: - web shortcuts (gg: wp: etc) do not work. At all. Period. They do here. I have configured them to have a blank as separator instead of the colon, maybe this is also set different in your setup? Oh my, I can't imagine to live without the shortcuts anymore. But then I said the same for mouse gestures, and had to live for half a year without. Now they work again, I hadn't checked for about a week. Weird... - randomly suddenly using 100% cpu when visiting forum sites (NO flash). Only workaround is to kill konqueror Did not see this (yet). - fish:// does not work Had problems with 4.1 and 4.2, works with 4.3.2. What error do you get? consistently get a could not connect error page, but ssh:// works fine - plugin support is awful. Forget AJAX, it does not work which counts out gmail and half the support sites I use at work Do you have an example so I can try to reproduce this (I do not use gmail)? gmail and internal sites here at work are the only ones I use myself. Which doesn't leave much room for you to test at -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 16:04:38 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 15:59:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Mick writes: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall *everything* from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? I see no problem in just installing them, without removing KDE 3.5. But you'll need to add kdeprefix to your USE flags. That is incorrect and the reason why is CLEARLY explained in the gentoo official KDE install docs USE=kdeprefix is not supported under any circumstances and has not effect on KDE:3.5 at all -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:23 +0100, Mick wrote: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =dev-libs/soprano-2.3.0[clucene,dbus,raptor,java]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/soprano-2.3.1 (Change USE: +java) (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kmail-4.3.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) Why on earth does kmail need jdk? It doesn't, it needs nepomuk which in turn needs soprano with either the java or redland USE flag. How can I avoid installing java? Either merge soprano with USE=redland or set USE=-semantic-desktop to do without nepomuk altogether. -- Neil Bothwick Life's a cache, and then you flush... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 16:07:23 Mick wrote: 2009/10/20 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 20 October 2009 15:44:07 Mick wrote: I will probably have to face this sooner rather than later. What's the best way to do this? Uninstall everything from KDE3.5 and then launch into this KDE4 upgrade marathon, or just emerge KDE4 in new slots? KDE:3 and KDE:4 happily co-exist in much the same way that gnome and KDE:4 happily co-exist -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Bloody thing: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =dev-libs/soprano-2.3.0[clucene,dbus,raptor,java]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/soprano-2.3.1 (Change USE: +java) (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kmail-4.3.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) Why on earth does kmail need jdk? How can I avoid installing java? It doesn't. You have USE=semantic-desktop so kmail pulls in nepomuk which pulls in soprano which requires java support -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 and now cannot build the vmware kernel- modules-1.0.0.15-r2 that I need for vmware-workstation-5.5.9. I've seen references on google searches that kernel-modules-1.0.0.25 will work for vmware-5.3 up to vmware-6.something. vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2629 Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade to newer vmware-workstation. :) Good luck
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:09:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: USE=kdeprefix is not supported under any circumstances and has not effect on KDE:3.5 at all The only time you need it, and you'll have to unmask the flag to do so, is if you are using two different KDE4 slots, like 4.3 and 4.2. -- Neil Bothwick Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:23 +0100, Mick wrote: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =dev-libs/soprano-2.3.0[clucene,dbus,raptor,java]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/soprano-2.3.1 (Change USE: +java) (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kmail-4.3.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) Why on earth does kmail need jdk? It doesn't, it needs nepomuk which in turn needs soprano with either the java or redland USE flag. How can I avoid installing java? Either merge soprano with USE=redland or set USE=-semantic-desktop to do without nepomuk altogether. Thank you all for persisting with me. :-) I'm afraid the -semantic-desktop USE flag did not cut it. So, I emerged dev-libs/soprano with -java +redland and all seems good. A few more things that look odd are: [ebuild N] net-libs/libvncserver-0.9.1 USE=jpeg zlib -no24bpp -nobackchannel 1,036 kB [0] [ebuild N] sys-boot/lilo-22.8-r2 USE=-device-mapper -minimal -pxeserial -static 431 kB [0] [ebuild N] dev-games/libggz-0.0.14.1 USE=-debug -gnutls 467 kB [0] [ebuild N] dev-games/ggz-client-libs-0.0.14.1 USE=-debug 600 kB [0] I don't really need a vnc server on this machine. I also don't need games and I prefer GRUB to LILO. So why is KDE4 springing all these goodies onto me? How should I tell it not to? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
2009/10/20 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/10/20 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:23 +0100, Mick wrote: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy =dev-libs/soprano-2.3.0[clucene,dbus,raptor,java]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/soprano-2.3.1 (Change USE: +java) (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kmail-4.3.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) Why on earth does kmail need jdk? It doesn't, it needs nepomuk which in turn needs soprano with either the java or redland USE flag. How can I avoid installing java? Either merge soprano with USE=redland or set USE=-semantic-desktop to do without nepomuk altogether. Thank you all for persisting with me. :-) I'm afraid the -semantic-desktop USE flag did not cut it. So, I emerged dev-libs/soprano with -java +redland and all seems good. A few more things that look odd are: [ebuild N ] net-libs/libvncserver-0.9.1 USE=jpeg zlib -no24bpp -nobackchannel 1,036 kB [0] [ebuild N ] sys-boot/lilo-22.8-r2 USE=-device-mapper -minimal -pxeserial -static 431 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-games/libggz-0.0.14.1 USE=-debug -gnutls 467 kB [0] [ebuild N ] dev-games/ggz-client-libs-0.0.14.1 USE=-debug 600 kB [0] I don't really need a vnc server on this machine. I also don't need games and I prefer GRUB to LILO. So why is KDE4 springing all these goodies onto me? How should I tell it not to? -- Regards, Mick Ditto for sys-devel/bin86 - do I need such a thing? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:15:20 +0100, Mick wrote: I don't really need a vnc server on this machine. I also don't need games and I prefer GRUB to LILO. So why is KDE4 springing all these goodies onto me? How should I tell it not to? Use the --tree option with emerge to see what is bringing these in (KDE4 doesn't try to merge lilo here) and read the ebuilds if it is still not clear. -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Neil Bothwick wrote: The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Yes, oooh yes... :-) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error
Am Dienstag 20 Oktober 2009 16:14:56 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:09:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: USE=kdeprefix is not supported under any circumstances and has not effect on KDE:3.5 at all The only time you need it, and you'll have to unmask the flag to do so, is if you are using two different KDE4 slots, like 4.3 and 4.2. Ah, ok. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Two taskbar panels after upgrade to KDE 4
Hi, I just upgraded from KDE 3.5.10 to KDE 4. The upgrade went fine and KDE 4 KDM shows still my old KDE 3.5, XFCE and GNOME sessions as well as the new KDE 4 session. The only problem is that when I login to the old KDE 3.5 desktop (which I want to keep until I configured KDE 4 fully) shows *two* taskbar panels: at the bottom of the screen the KDE 4 taskbar panel and directly above the old KDE 3.5 taskbar panel. How can I stop the old KDE 3.5 session from loading any KDE 4 component and in particular: how can I stop the KDE 3.5 desktop loadling the KDE 4 taskbar panel?! Thorsten
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: [...] vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. This worked so far as to get the modules built and loaded. Then vmware 5.5.9 complained about mismatched interface version numbers. There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2 629 More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating each time the kernel were updated. Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade to newer vmware-workstation. :) I bit the bullet and upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.3. Much easier. It just drops in and works. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Wine users backup libjpeg.so.62.0.0
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: MAKE SURE TO BACKUP libjpeg.so.62.0.0 and libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to libjpeg.so.62.0.0) No. Simply emerge jpeg-compat to get back a stable system. My older machine was getting flakey so I migrated to my newer machine. I updated the new machine to the latest everything, and got a message that I could delete libjpeg.so.62 (a symlink to libjpeg.so.62.0.0) in /usr/lib (that's where it is on my Gentoo system). Bad move... Wine no longer ran. Fortunately, I had not updated my older machine, so I was able to copy the files over from it, and Wine is now running. The weird part is that I followed instructions, and ran the revdep-rebuild. It claimed there were no dynamic links to libjpeg.so.62 Run redev-rebuild --library libjpeg.so.62 (as told by the elog). Then you can unmerge jpeg-compat again.
[gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk
I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel. When I issue the command
echo disk /sys/power/state, it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots
and comes back up again. The session restores properly from the swap
drive, so at least that part works. What can I do to keep it sleeping
until I power up again?
The major non-standard items with my system are that
1) I've set the short button-press on the power-button as a panic escape
to kick me to VT1, rather than reboot.
2) I've disabled {CTRL-ALT-DEL}, because I've hit it once too often at
home after becoming used to it on Windows at work... gr
A relatively minor nuisance is due to the fact I combine vga=6 in
/etc/lilo.conf with CONSOLEFONT=lat1-10 in /etc/conf.d/consolefont.
vga=6 defaults to 8-pixel-high font on 640 pixels across by 480 pixels
high. This gives 60 rows of text, but is unreadable. Switching over to
a 10-pixel-high font gives a nicer, more readable, 48-row display.
After coming back from its very short suspend, the machine comes back
up with a 640 pixel x 480 scanline display as per vga=6. It also
remembers that I have 48 lines on my text consoles. But it gives the
full 60 row display, with the bottom dozen rows not being used. I can
straighten this out by manually issuing the command...
setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-10. Is there a script file that
can be set up to execute only after a resume?
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:14 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I've enabled suspend-to-disk in the kernel. When I issue the command echo disk /sys/power/state, it suspends but *IMMEDIATELY* reboots and comes back up again. The session restores properly from the swap drive, so at least that part works. What can I do to keep it sleeping until I power up again? Ok I'm going to address this issue. You specified multiple issues in your email. I think it's better to split each issue into its own posting. It's simpler easier to work with one problem at a time and also replies to postings on different issues don't get all garbled up/confusing in archive searches. Ok the echo trick isn't the recommended way to suspend to disk. A better way is to use pm-hibernate --quirks (pm-hibernate is from the pm-utils packages). The --quirks option will try to handle any, well, quirks that are known with your hardware. echo'ing to /sys/power/state is a little more low-level and could be iffy on some types of hardware. You should also check dmesg. More than likely there is a kernel error that explains why it failed to suspend completely.
[gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc. When I do, I find that the colours on my current machine's display are corrupted. Clicking on a window will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks like colour confetti. Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2 Duo cpu. lspci -v shows the integrated video controller twice, as both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 020d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information ? Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 020d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at fdf0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at fdc0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 20:55 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Some people like the nice crisp text of true console mode. Many can't stand surfing with a textmode browser. Count me in both groups. So I switch back and forth a lot. This email is being composed in a true text console (80 columns x 48 rows; but that's another story). I flip to X for surfing/spreadsheets/etc. When I do, I find that the colours on my current machine's display are corrupted. Clicking on a window will reset most of the colours, but the window title-bar still looks like colour confetti. Background info... I'm running 32-bit X86 Gentoo on an Intel Core2 Duo cpu. lspci -v shows the integrated video controller twice, as both 00:00.0 and as 00:02.0, like so... 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 020d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information ? Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel Kernel modules: intel-agp 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device 020d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5 Memory at fdf0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at fdc0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Count=1/1 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two.
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com wrote: The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks. Damien, I have been having issues with the openoffice identical to those which you describe here on stable x86. I have eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Installed versions: 3.1.1(03:21:09 10/13/09)(cups dbus gnome gtk java nsplugin opengl pam ) Homepage:http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. The package was compiled with -J3 on a dual core centrino processor. I can append my information to the bug since I am using a different arch then you, I am just unsure of what information is needed. let me know and I will add my results. AJ
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com wrote: The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks. Damien, I have been having issues with the openoffice identical to those which you describe here on stable x86. I have eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Installed versions: 3.1.1(03:21:09 10/13/09)(cups dbus gnome gtk java nsplugin opengl pam ) Homepage:http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. The package was compiled with -J3 on a dual core centrino processor. I can append my information to the bug since I am using a different arch then you, I am just unsure of what information is needed. let me know and I will add my results. AJ I tried this and it seems to work. I may not be doing something right tho. This is what I did. I opened OO calc and OO writer. I'm not to familiar with Calc but I typed some stuff in the cells and then did a ctrl a to select all, then ctrl c to copy I then went to OO writer and did a ctrl v to paste the contents. As I said, I'm not good at OO calc at all. When I pasted to OO writer, it pasted something but I'm not sure what. My CPU did get busy for several seconds during the pasting. What I do see looks like a box but I can't see anything in the box. I may just not know what I am supposed to be looking for tho. I did mention that I'm not good at Calc right? I'm on gcc-4.4.2 and I have mine set to -j2. I have a single AMD 2500+ with 2Gb of ram. If I can reproduce this, I'd glad to post a same here on the bug. Dale :-) :-) P. S. My internet connection is iffy right now. Some dumbo got happy with a ditch witch. They are working on it. I'm just glad I have a cell phone. LOL
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com wrote: The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks. Damien, I have been having issues with the openoffice identical to those which you describe here on stable x86. I have eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Installed versions: 3.1.1(03:21:09 10/13/09)(cups dbus gnome gtk java nsplugin opengl pam ) Homepage:http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. The package was compiled with -J3 on a dual core centrino processor. I can append my information to the bug since I am using a different arch then you, I am just unsure of what information is needed. let me know and I will add my results. AJ I tried this and it seems to work. I may not be doing something right tho. This is what I did. I opened OO calc and OO writer. I'm not to familiar with Calc but I typed some stuff in the cells and then did a ctrl a to select all, then ctrl c to copy I then went to OO writer and did a ctrl v to paste the contents. As I said, I'm not good at OO calc at all. When I pasted to OO writer, it pasted something but I'm not sure what. My CPU did get busy for several seconds during the pasting. What I do see looks like a box but I can't see anything in the box. I may just not know what I am supposed to be looking for tho. I did mention that I'm not good at Calc right? I'm on gcc-4.4.2 and I have mine set to -j2. I have a single AMD 2500+ with 2Gb of ram. If I can reproduce this, I'd glad to post a same here on the bug. Dale :-) :-) P. S. My internet connection is iffy right now. Some dumbo got happy with a ditch witch. They are working on it. I'm just glad I have a cell phone. LOL
Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:30:06PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote If you are using the Intel graphics I think you should try KMS. Switching back and forth between X and a vt is both fast and flicker-free and I haven't seen any artifacts switching between the two. From looking at Google, I think you're referring to kernel mode switching. I have looked all over make menuconfig and can't find it. What is the reference I should be looking for? I'm running the latest stable kernel as near as I can tell... [d531][waltdnes][~] uname -sr Linux 2.6.30-gentoo-r7 -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
AJ, Thanks for your quick reply. I think you should append that there is also a fault on x86 arch as well. Thanks, Damien AJ Spagnoletti wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com wrote: The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks. Damien, I have been having issues with the openoffice identical to those which you describe here on stable x86. I have eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Installed versions: 3.1.1(03:21:09 10/13/09)(cups dbus gnome gtk java nsplugin opengl pam ) Homepage:http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. The package was compiled with -J3 on a dual core centrino processor. I can append my information to the bug since I am using a different arch then you, I am just unsure of what information is needed. let me know and I will add my results. AJ
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice.org copy cells from calc and paste into writer causes crash.
Dale, If you think the symptoms of your problem are similar, plz append. The ctrl-c and ctrl-v is a workaround, but I think a solid fix is needed. Thanks, Damien Dale wrote: AJ Spagnoletti wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Damien Sticklen ubiquitous1...@gmail.com wrote: The details so far are in bug # 289665 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289665. Basically, I installed openoffice.org (non-bin) using portage from the normal repository mirrors. The first problem is described in the above bug, the second is that formula do no survive to save and reopen process. Thanks. Damien, I have been having issues with the openoffice identical to those which you describe here on stable x86. I have eix openoffice [I] app-office/openoffice Installed versions: 3.1.1(03:21:09 10/13/09)(cups dbus gnome gtk java nsplugin opengl pam ) Homepage:http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. The package was compiled with -J3 on a dual core centrino processor. I can append my information to the bug since I am using a different arch then you, I am just unsure of what information is needed. let me know and I will add my results. AJ I tried this and it seems to work. I may not be doing something right tho. This is what I did. I opened OO calc and OO writer. I'm not to familiar with Calc but I typed some stuff in the cells and then did a ctrl a to select all, then ctrl c to copy I then went to OO writer and did a ctrl v to paste the contents. As I said, I'm not good at OO calc at all. When I pasted to OO writer, it pasted something but I'm not sure what. My CPU did get busy for several seconds during the pasting. What I do see looks like a box but I can't see anything in the box. I may just not know what I am supposed to be looking for tho. I did mention that I'm not good at Calc right? I'm on gcc-4.4.2 and I have mine set to -j2. I have a single AMD 2500+ with 2Gb of ram. If I can reproduce this, I'd glad to post a same here on the bug. Dale :-) :-) P. S. My internet connection is iffy right now. Some dumbo got happy with a ditch witch. They are working on it. I'm just glad I have a cell phone. LOL
[gentoo-user] cannot configure native vmware tools
hi, my gentoo x64 kernel is compiled by genkernel. after i have installed the native tool, i am asked to run the vmware-config-toos.pl. but it says none of the pre-build vmmemctl modules is suitable for my running kernel, and it tries to rebuild it. but it looks like it cannot find my kernel source file correctly. it says /usr/src/linux/include is a kernel header file directory, but it is not part of kernel source tree. why? is it because i am using genkernel, or the kernel source is patched by gentoo? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
