[gentoo-user] Re: Idle Process Scheduling

2009-06-14 Thread Jason Lynch
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:39:52 +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: How do you know how many processes are running? What does 'top' say about CPU usage and load? Maybe dnetc has two threads, which can each occupy a core, so you have still 4 threads that are running, in 3 processes. You still should get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Idle Process Scheduling

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:07:16 + (UTC) Jason Lynch ja...@calindora.com wrote: Thus, I have five processes, four at nice 19, one at nice 0, a load average of just over 5, but only 3 out of the 4 cores are actually doing anything. That's an interesting observation with quite a trivial

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape won't start

2009-06-14 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:17, Michael P. Souliermsoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: Wow. How'd I get in this state? Try unmerging app-text/poppler*. It's being replaced by dev-libs/poppler* Ward

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-14 Thread bn
walt ha scritto: Heh. I laughed out loud when I read this link about dselect, especially the quote from Andrew Morton who captured my sentiments exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect Oh well but it's kinda obvious that dselect is HELL and no one uses it anymore I think. I thought

[gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread AG
Hi all Thanks for the responses to my earlier query regarding co-location of Debian and Gentoo on the same HDD. I still have a few questions regarding an installation before I take the plunge: (1) Looking through the background docs, it occurs to me that if I wanted to install Gentoo on

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Khanh Nguyen
Hi Florian. ** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone. Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:02:50 +0100, AG wrote: (1) Looking through the background docs, it occurs to me that if I wanted to install Gentoo on my system, I would need access to a second machine that is running all of the on-line docs that guide one through the installation process. Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-14 Thread Tal2baro
I also had a problem with the KDE menu missing after the upgrade to 3.5.10 I've investigated starting from the message form kbuildsycoca and found a solution to get the KDE menu to be build. I found that in ~/.config/menus/ nothing was there as expected by kbuildsyscoca So I did: Copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:02:50 AG wrote: Hi all Thanks for the responses to my earlier query regarding co-location of Debian and Gentoo on the same HDD. I still have a few questions regarding an installation before I take the plunge: (1) Looking through the background docs, it occurs to

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread AG
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2009 13:02:50 AG wrote: Hi all Thanks for the responses to my earlier query regarding co-location of Debian and Gentoo on the same HDD. I still have a few questions regarding an installation before I take the plunge: (1) Looking through the

Re: [gentoo-user] Considering launching into Gentoo

2009-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 13 June 2009 14:02:26 AG wrote: How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. I've run multi-boot systems too,

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 14 June 2009 15:24:24 AG wrote: What you will do is spend an insane amount of time trying to figure out what a certain USE flag actually does an if you want it. Debian doesn't give you that choice. Is this an example of that infinite adaptability of Gentoo as a metadistro? Yes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Khanh Nguyen schrieb: Hi Florian. ** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone. Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a

Re: [gentoo-user] inkscape won't start

2009-06-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/06/09 Ward Poelmans said: Try unmerging app-text/poppler*. It's being replaced by dev-libs/poppler* Ok, after completely rebuilding inkscape, it works now. With warnings mind you (inkscape:25661): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:03:58 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: ... Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and python-updater aware of this problem? The update from python-2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to veiw absolute latest on partage without syncing

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 18:15]: I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far ahead of installed packages. I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates

Re: [gentoo-user] About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not masked, it should `just work' [tm]. When I read the bug rightfully, procmail did not build with

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic queries regarding installation from an outsider looking in

2009-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:06:04 +0100, AG wrote: Look at the alternate install docs. Although these relate to using a live CD like Knoppix, you can also use an already installed system for this. So you can install Gentoo from a chroot in your existing Debian system (you will may a live CD to

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not masked, it should `just work' [tm]. When

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage and is not masked, it should `just work' [tm]. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Mike Kazantsev schrieb: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:03:58 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: ... Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and python-updater aware of this problem? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [14.06.09 19:46]: Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: * Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 16:41]: There is a patch offered but still one would think using standard emerge on a package that is outside the `~' daredevil stage

[gentoo-user] Web application for contact management...

2009-06-14 Thread Steve
I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven for asking here. Personally, I'm absolutely awful at remembering

Re: [gentoo-user] Web application for contact management...

2009-06-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 June 2009, Steve wrote: I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven for asking here. Personally,

Re: [gentoo-user] Web application for contact management...

2009-06-14 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Stevegentoo_...@shic.co.uk wrote: I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking for just an address book... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:53:38 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: eselect maintains a list of all enabled python slots and a primary one, not just the primary one like now. If nothing else is specified, every program uses this primary python version (just like now).

[gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Sebastian Günther sam...@guenther-roetgen.de writes: First of all the bug is fixed, and a working patch was there 1 day after the opening. I call this a fast response... For ~x86 this is a working solution, and if you use ~x86: b.g.o *is* the users information system and applying patches

[gentoo-user] Whey two dangling symlinks /etc/init.d/ depscan.sh runscript.sh

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Putnam
This is a very new install but somehow I have two dangling symlinks in /etc/init.d. depscan.sh and runscript.sh Anyone know where these come from or if they are signs of a problem?

[gentoo-user] lvm problem(s)

2009-06-14 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, My fresh install of 2.6.29-r5 goes kablooey just after 'Loading module dm-mod' Then the boot console reports: Couldn't find device with uuid 'ldwVeS-gw14-HE42-M3Gw-DILI-Dbjh-2lHroF' and Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg. and Volume group vg not found The

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other

2009-06-14 Thread Francisco Ares
I've found out that there are some packages out of kde-basse that are pulling 3.5.10 packages while they're still masked ~x86 One is Amarok. Another, probably, is Ktorrent. Anyone has seen it or am I the only one not using KDE 4 ;-) ? Best regards to all Francisco On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !

2009-06-14 Thread Philip Webb
090614 Tal2baro wrote: I also had a problem with the KDE menu missing after the upgrade to 3.5.10 I've investigated starting from the message from kbuildsycoca found there was nothing in ~/.config/menus/ expected by kbuildsyscoca So I copied /usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg/menus/ content to