[gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
Howdy, I have this little weather applet thingy down at the bottom of my desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die. As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy. Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net without this thing hogging up my DSL connection. While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, that is where all this traffic is going to. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Re: errors with mplayer and mp3 files
On 02/09/12 03:23, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using unstable gentoo and using mplayer at the text console. When playing an mp3 file, I often get the following error: mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24) Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix? It would be nice not to depend on mpg123 at all -- is this possible? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Try enabling the mad USE flag for mplayer. This should then use libmad for MP3 decoding. I think.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: errors with mplayer and mp3 files
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 03:23, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using unstable gentoo and using mplayer at the text console. When playing an mp3 file, I often get the following error: mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24) Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix? It would be nice not to depend on mpg123 at all -- is this possible? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Try enabling the mad USE flag for mplayer. This should then use libmad for MP3 decoding. I think. Thanks for your response -- mad is already enabled, but mpg123 is being used. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] Re: errors with mplayer and mp3 files
On 02/09/12 12:47, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 03:23, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using unstable gentoo and using mplayer at the text console. When playing an mp3 file, I often get the following error: mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24) Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix? It would be nice not to depend on mpg123 at all -- is this possible? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Try enabling the mad USE flag for mplayer. This should then use libmad for MP3 decoding. I think. Thanks for your response -- mad is already enabled, but mpg123 is being used. It seems mplayer pulls mpg123 as a dep: $ emerge -pv --depclean media-sound/mpg123 Calculating dependencies... done! media-sound/mpg123-1.14.3 pulled in by: media-video/mplayer2- Looking at the ebuild, it indeed does: mp3? ( media-sound/mpg123 ) I don't know why it's possible to enable both mad as well as mp3. The solution is simple. Use mad -mp3 as USE flags for mplayer. I just did the same and mplayer now only uses libmad to play MP3s. If no other package depends on mpg123 on your system, you can now delete it. emerge -a --depclean will take care of it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: errors with mplayer and mp3 files
Am Sun, 02 Sep 2012 05:47:07 -0400 schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 03:23, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using unstable gentoo and using mplayer at the text console. When playing an mp3 file, I often get the following error: mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24) Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix? It would be nice not to depend on mpg123 at all -- is this possible? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Try enabling the mad USE flag for mplayer. This should then use libmad for MP3 decoding. I think. Thanks for your response -- mad is already enabled, but mpg123 is being used. I happen to have also had vaguely similar problems. Here is what is in my mplayer config (I use mplayer2 though): # mplayer2 stupidly tries to use the bundled mp3lib, which Gentoo removes [extension.mp3] afm=mpg123 But the same principle can be used to force mplayer to use libmad, to see if that works. Or maybe mplayer1 also has the same problem as mplayer2 now? HTH -- Marc Joliet -- People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2012, 02:54:27 schrieb Dale: Howdy, I have this little weather applet thingy down at the bottom of my desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die. As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy. Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net without this thing hogging up my DSL connection. While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, that is where all this traffic is going to. Dale :-) :-) and you used google of course... -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 08:54:27 Dale wrote: Howdy, I have this little weather applet thingy down at the bottom of my desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die. As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy. I clicked on my Weather Forecast applet settings and it also started sending packets to wetter.com - despite the fact that I have set it to connect to the BBC weather RSS feed. Hmm ... Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net without this thing hogging up my DSL connection. It's not using that many packets, but I agree that it is annoying. The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it. Use ps, top, lsof as you prefer to find which PID you should kill. While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, that is where all this traffic is going to. I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere. In my .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
Mick wrote: On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 08:54:27 Dale wrote: Howdy, I have this little weather applet thingy down at the bottom of my desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die. As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy. I clicked on my Weather Forecast applet settings and it also started sending packets to wetter.com - despite the fact that I have set it to connect to the BBC weather RSS feed. Hmm ... Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net without this thing hogging up my DSL connection. It's not using that many packets, but I agree that it is annoying. The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it. Use ps, top, lsof as you prefer to find which PID you should kill. Well, I got annoyed beyond reason and just renamed the config file. Now all is quiet except for me surfing the web. ;-) I used ps and I couldn't figure out what process was running it. Then again, I wasn't sure what to look for either. o_O I lost my settings tho. :-( While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, that is where all this traffic is going to. I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere. In my .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com. I researched this a good while back and it appears that it is hard coded. Back in KDE3, I think it had some way of selecting what to connect to, depending on what country you are in I guess. Now, It's either wetter.com or nothing on my rig. From my vague recollection of others describing it, if you live in the USA, no weather updates. Since KDE4 seems to have broken it, maybe KDE5 will fix it. LOL Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 12:41:51 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it. Use ps, top, lsof as you prefer to find which PID you should kill. Well, I got annoyed beyond reason and just renamed the config file. Now all is quiet except for me surfing the web. ;-) I used ps and I couldn't figure out what process was running it. Then again, I wasn't sure what to look for either. o_O I lost my settings tho. :-( Restore your settings from a back up. Then 'ps axf | grep kio_http' (while you have all applications closed) and kill that if it is still running. Warning: I think that going back into the settings and running Search for a weather URI will launch again a kio_http process and you're back where you started. While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3 to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying. Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop, that is where all this traffic is going to. I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere. In my .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com. I researched this a good while back and it appears that it is hard coded. Back in KDE3, I think it had some way of selecting what to connect to, depending on what country you are in I guess. Now, It's either wetter.com or nothing on my rig. From my vague recollection of others describing it, if you live in the USA, no weather updates. Since KDE4 seems to have broken it, maybe KDE5 will fix it. LOL If you have your NOAA URI correctly set in your .kde4/share/config/plasma- desktop-appletsrc it should go fetch the weather feed from there. -- Regards, Mick smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: errors with mplayer and mp3 files
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 12:47, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/09/12 03:23, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using unstable gentoo and using mplayer at the text console. When playing an mp3 file, I often get the following error: mpg123 decoding failed: No stream opened. (code 24) Any ideas on what causes this and/or how to fix? It would be nice not to depend on mpg123 at all -- is this possible? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Try enabling the mad USE flag for mplayer. This should then use libmad for MP3 decoding. I think. Thanks for your response -- mad is already enabled, but mpg123 is being used. It seems mplayer pulls mpg123 as a dep: $ emerge -pv --depclean media-sound/mpg123 Calculating dependencies... done! media-sound/mpg123-1.14.3 pulled in by: media-video/mplayer2- Looking at the ebuild, it indeed does: mp3? ( media-sound/mpg123 ) I don't know why it's possible to enable both mad as well as mp3. The solution is simple. Use mad -mp3 as USE flags for mplayer. I just did the same and mplayer now only uses libmad to play MP3s. If no other package depends on mpg123 on your system, you can now delete it. emerge -a --depclean will take care of it. Thanks much -- it seems to be working now. I had never heard of the mad before -- learn something new every day. This list is very nice and helpful. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] dev-util/cmake-2.8.8-r3 | Bootstrap failed
Hi, When updating from cmake-2.8.7-r5 to the just stablized cmake-2.8.8-r3 I get; http://bpaste.net/show/43387/ but this works; http://bpaste.net/show/43385/ Thanks for any insight, David
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/cmake-2.8.8-r3 | Bootstrap failed
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:27:28 -0400
David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com wrote:
Hi,
When updating from cmake-2.8.7-r5 to the just stablized
cmake-2.8.8-r3 I get;
http://bpaste.net/show/43387/
but this works;
http://bpaste.net/show/43385/
Thanks for any insight,
David
A bit of a stab in the dark, but I'd guess for your pastebin of 43385
that ${par_arg} has the value 4
which makes very little sense.
Stick an echo in there, run it, see if this is indeed then case then
file a bug at b.g.o.
meanwhile you have a patch and a local overlay (or a mask file) to work
around this brokenness
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
