Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 17:54:49 schrieb econti: Is there any other solution? The same problem came up on gentoo-user-de yesterday, too. One replier told us that there was a portage news item about this topic: 2009-09-27-qt_use_changes Title Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag

[gentoo-user]Unknown Host pops up when starting X

2009-10-22 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have just emerged kde 4.3. when i ran startx, a message Unknown Host is displayed. Clearly, I missed some configuration. But what? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusion

2009-10-22 Thread Mick
2009/10/22 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de: Am Samstag 17 Oktober 2009 17:54:49 schrieb econti: Is there any other solution? The same problem came up on gentoo-user-de yesterday, too. One replier told us that there was a portage news item about this topic: 2009-09-27-qt_use_changes

Re: [gentoo-user] SIT-file format (Mac?) on linux

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:47:26 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: does anyone know an unpacker for the sit fileformat (I think, this one is Mac-based?!) ? Try app-arch/stuffit -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, bugger. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. How do I go about copying them over? I did cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 and all the settings (not just only

Re: [gentoo-user]Unknown Host pops up when starting X

2009-10-22 Thread KH
Xi Shen schrieb: hi, i have just emerged kde 4.3. when i ran startx, a message Unknown Host is displayed. Clearly, I missed some configuration. But what? hi, could it be this part: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=8#doc_chap2 kh

[gentoo-user] slim-themes : gentoo 10 years of compiling

2009-10-22 Thread KH
Hi, I created three slim themes based on the beautifully wallpapers created by Ben Stedman. You can find the wallpapers here. [1] The themes I created can be found here: gentoo_10_purple: screen shot: http://www.konstantinhansen.de/source/slim_themes/gentoo_10_purple/gentoo_10_purple.png

[gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on update world) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Johannes Kimmel
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on update world) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. if packages are not in the portage tree, they should not be pulled in anymore. therefore

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:42:41 Johannes Kimmel wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on update world) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. if packages are not in the

Re: [gentoo-user] slim-themes : gentoo 10 years of compiling

2009-10-22 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:29:18PM +0200, KH wrote: Hi, I created three slim themes based on the beautifully wallpapers created by Ben Stedman. You can find the wallpapers here. [1] The themes I created can be found here: gentoo_10_purple: screen shot:

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:42:41 Johannes Kimmel wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:58:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: depclean only removes packages that it knows for a fact are no longer needed. This means - not in world - not linked to by anything - not depended on by anything not in the tree is not part of that list. If you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:14:28 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. eix-test-obsolete can produce a list of installed packages that are no longer in portage. -- Neil Bothwick My brain's in gear,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:28:10 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: I did the 30-r6 from scratch, then copied the .config over to the 30-r7 slot and ran make oldconfig. No change. Least I still have the 29 kernel; it works fine ;) Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? -- Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/22/2009 02:14 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in the current portage tree. (Those make problems on update world) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Quick 'n dirty one-liner: for f in $(qlist -IC); do stat /usr/portage/$f

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you for your help, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Re: HP ScanJet 6300C

2009-10-22 Thread James
walt w41ter at gmail.com writes: I'd suggest media-gfx/xsane, which is a great GUI front end for sane. Fabulous software! thx... James

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. How do I go about copying them over? I did cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4 and all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 17:45:36 Alex Schuster wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have been carried over into KDE4. How do I go about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions is unsafe. Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a diff -y between the two configs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:46 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions is unsafe. 0.0.01 is hardly a big leap!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Maxim Wexler
OK, went ahead and did it. It's already broke, what's the harm?. Looks like I'll be answering a lot of questions before I'm done. STRIP_ASM_SYMS !? what th'? On 10/22/09, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:17:46 Maxim Wexler wrote: Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig? I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions is unsafe. Not to mention the great whack of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:36:48 Maxim Wexler wrote: OK, went ahead and did it. It's already broke, what's the harm?. Looks like I'll be answering a lot of questions before I'm done. STRIP_ASM_SYMS !? what th'? run menuconfig in another terminal, type /, enter the string, press enter,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:36:48 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: OK, went ahead and did it. It's already broke, what's the harm?. Looks like I'll be answering a lot of questions before I'm done. STRIP_ASM_SYMS !? what th'? Look at the list of choices it gives you, probably something like y/n/? - guess

[gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when trying to open stadict Can not load image. Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/pixmaps/stardict.png' and this problem happened

Re: [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when trying to open stadict Can not load image. Couldn't recognize the image file format for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop won't remote print

2009-10-22 Thread Grant
I can't get my new laptop to print to a remote printer.  My old laptop still does it just fine.  They both have identical /etc/cups/client.conf: ServerName 192.168.0.1 Each laptop is tested as 192.168.0.2.  Neither laptop has a firewall running.  I can't think of anything else to check.  

[gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-22 Thread Alan E. Davis
I've tried alot of things, but I give up. Can someone help me with the knot of dependencies that has been holding my system in hostage from any attempt to update world, for weeks now? This message asked if I want to merge these packages: !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to

Re: [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:50:03 +0200, Hung Dang wrote about [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application: Hi all, After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when trying to open

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Mick
2009/10/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Thursday 22 October 2009 17:45:36 Alex Schuster wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Mick wrote: Maybe I am getting lazy - but wouldn't mind all my ftp, webdav and ssh settings under the Network places to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 22 Oktober 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: I've tried alot of things, but I give up. Can someone help me with the knot of dependencies that has been holding my system in hostage from any attempt to update world, for weeks now? This message asked if I want to merge these packages:

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 23:27:08 Mick wrote: I copied selected files like emailidentities, parts of kmailrc, etc. and they seem to work fine. Only two rather annoying problems: I can't find the POP Filters to copy them over and so far all my messages arrive in the main inbox. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:55:31 +, Jacob Todd wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when trying to open stadict Can

Re: [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application [SOLVED]

2009-10-22 Thread Hung Dang
Thanks a lot for valuable suggestions. By running update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime/ my GNOME applications work again :). Hung Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:55:31 +, Jacob Todd wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all,

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 11:25 AM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Did linux#make menuconfig followed by linux# make make modules_install on the .2.6.30-gentoo-r7 sources. And copied over the new kernel and rebooted. The kernel panicked. The relevant messages are: ... VFS: Mounted root (ext2

[gentoo-user] Re: Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread walt
On 10/22/2009 02:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: # update-mime-database /usr/share/mime-info This doesn't exist here. It's a purely gnome thing. If you don't run gnome you won't have it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:31:10 -0700, walt wrote: In the dark ages, before udev, /dev/console had to be created in the bare /dev directory (i.e. before anything is mounted on /dev) to prevent this sort of error. I thought it had been solved, but maybe I'm wrong about that. You still need it,

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

2009-10-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maxim Wexler wrote: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1, Freeing unused kernel memory: 276k freed Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel panic - not syncing. No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Colors corrupted in X after returning from text console

2009-10-22 Thread waltdnes
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59:12PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote KMS drivers and framebuffer console drivers are different and AFAIK mutually exclusive. The boot parameter to disable KMS would be, e.g., i915.modeset=0 I don't want to disable KMS, I want to disable framebuffer, and I simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

2009-10-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 22 Oktober 2009 23:19:07 schrieb Alan E. Davis: I've tried alot of things, but I give up. Can someone help me with the knot of dependencies that has been holding my system in hostage from any attempt to update world, for weeks now? Please read your portage news, especially

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

2009-10-22 Thread Mick
2009/10/22 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: 2009/10/22 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Thursday 22 October 2009 23:27:08 Mick wrote: I copied selected files like emailidentities, parts of kmailrc, etc. and they seem to work fine.  Only two rather annoying problems: I can't find the