Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 06:24:22 Maxim Wexler wrote: so tell me how come none of you quarter-brights have responded to the email where I say this problem has been fixed? Maybe because you were making such a ruckus with your three-year old style tantrums that everyone who cares stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin error

2009-12-02 Thread Christian Könitzer
Hi don't know if this helps, but here you can see my use flags and it worls on my system: [I] mail-filter/spamassassin Available versions: 3.1.8 3.1.8-r1 ~3.2.0 ~3.2.0-r1 ~3.2.1 3.2.1-r1 ~3.2.2 ~3.2.3 ~3.2.4 ~3.2.5 ~3.2.5-r1 {berkdb doc ipv6 ldap mysql postgres qmail sqlite ssl tools}

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:24:22 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote: so tell me how come none of you quarter-brights have responded to the email where I say this problem has been fixed? Because your attitude sucks. you want to help? Frankly, no. Good luck in getting help in future when you respond to

Re: [gentoo-user] spamassassin error

2009-12-02 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:06:04 -0500 David David wrote: [...] Looking at the ebuild looks like berkdb pulls it in; spamassassin/spamassassin-3.2.1-r1.ebuild berkdb? ( virtual/perl-DB_File virtual/perl-DB_File/perl-DB_File-1.813.ebuild DESCRIPTION=Virtual for DB_File

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

2009-12-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Maxim really has a bad attitude, but I'll try once more, and only once. This post I quote from Willie Wong has an step-by-step guide that Maxim obviously didn't read, because even the most utterly illiterate person would understand it. On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 04:56:53 -0500, Willie Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear- of-gnu-patch-2-6 sigh I emerged patch-2.60 when it hit ~amd64 then downgraded it 10

[gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long pauses, but I've had several different kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2.4 fails to build [solved]

2009-12-02 Thread Roger Mason
Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com writes: if you're using an intel core2 processor, the proper -march setting is -march=nocona Steffen Loos fe...@gmx.net writes: You can try march=native. Maybe it is a good choice for make.conf too?! Thank you Zeerak Steffen, it is now compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results. Good God. I hope you

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: I decide to leave it as it is for the next days. Afaik I don't need Video ABI on this machine for now. I gave it a try and went back to 1.7.1 ... the first click after login crashed the session. So it seems to be related to xorg-server here. I will do some more

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs home directory vs kmail

2009-12-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mike Diehl writes: BTW, the nfs mounts are done via /etc/init.d/nfs, which does a mount -a nfs. Not here. Are you using baselayout-2 or something? Some while ago, I had problems (not similar to yours) when mounting NFS shares before I had started /etc/init.d/nfs-client, which is called

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox and the kernel causing long

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear- of-gnu-patch-2-6 sigh I emerged patch-2.60

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. After downgrading, I needed to rebuild about 300 packages, including all of KDE4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Philip Webb
091202 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/12/01/gentoo-service-announcement-keep-clear-of-gnu-patch-2-6

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to determine which mobo without opening case

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:18 -0600 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 01:25:16 David Relson wrote: For grins, whenever I restart my computer I run hwinfo, lshw, lspci, and a variety of other utilities and save the results.

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:22:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Dirk Uys squawked: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:10:30 -0500, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:48:16 Philip Webb wrote: 091202 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:30:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Of course I ran emerge -p. Well actually I run emerge -a but the effect is the same - see what's going to be installed before it's installed. Until a week ago no-one knew the effects patch-2.6.0 would have so

[gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig',

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 02 Dezember 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Yep, this bug was a major annoyance for me too. I emerged patch-2.6 on November 15 and since then, being on ~amd64, a *lot* of other packages. After downgrading, I needed to

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 04:48 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 091202 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/02/2009 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 01 December 2009 18:02:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Everyone should read the following and follow the advice given:

[gentoo-user] cmake - need help

2009-12-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, unfortunately I have no experience with cmake. The current version of kde-base/step-4.3.4 fails because it cannot find the eigen2 include directory. (I have created a bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295411 ) Looking at kdeedu-4.3.4/step/CMakeLists.txt there is

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 05:10 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Jes??s Guerrero squawked: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:22:38 +0200, Dirk Uysdirkc...@gmail.com wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:48:16 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; Then how do they get tested? (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. What difference does this make? It shows an update for

[gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/02/2009 05:19 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:50:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: On 12/02/2009 01:22 PM, Dirk Uys wrote: This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Mick
2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread felix
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:48:16AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: 2 pieces of advice to avoid such problems: (1) never use the 'testing' versions of system pkgs; (2) never run 'emerge world' without the '-p' flag. (0) Never speak on that which you know not. -- ... _._. ._ ._. .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: Most folk now have to rebuild 70 - 300 packages, I'm stuck with potentially 1472 sigh I feel with you ... fortunately the cpus should do it on their own, accompanied by some fans ;-) - Any idea how to elegantly split that job into some digestible chunks? The various

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/2/2009 11:26 AM, Mick wrote: 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 06:13 -0800, BRM wrote: the the grub keeps reporting that it is not a recognized format or something to that effect, so it won't load it. Please post the exact error message (write it down if need be). Simply saying or something to that effect tends to lead to errors in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Mittwoch 18 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:16:04 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: Namespaces - you don't need it? Kick 'em out. hmm, interesting ... ;-) for sure I also want to decrapify my

Re: [gentoo-user] how to know which driver a device is using?

2009-12-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 12/1/2009 7:59 PM, Xi Shen wrote: Hi, when i start my system from gentoo live dvd, all my hardware works fine. but if i want to have a small system, so i removed many drivers when i am compiling my own system. the result is some times, i do not know which driver should i choose for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Penguin Lover Nikos Chantziaras squawked: Hum, I had forgotten about this command. It would have come in handy a few days ago. But in the case of FireFox, wouldn't that make it worse? No. If you run other tasks as ionice -c3 they will stop blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 19:59:35 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: Most folk now have to rebuild 70 - 300 packages, I'm stuck with potentially 1472 sigh I feel with you ... fortunately the cpus should do it on their own, accompanied by some fans ;-) - Any idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Looong delays

2009-12-02 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi This has been bothering me for some time now. I have a Dell PC at work, Intel Core2 Duo with 4gb ram etc. Whenever something does a lot of disk access, the PC slows down to a halt? I remember some issue between Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Seems as if I have to simply manage that to-rebuild-list myself .. my rebuild-list crashed at kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi, interesting on a gnome-system ... k3b depends on kdelibs and I have useflag avahi for that, hmmm ... I removed it from my list and emerge the

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: whoops. I hadn't looked back at that thread for weeks, only found it now. Does anyone know of a helpful addon for thunderbird which allows to simply follow threads on mailinglists? I always think of the possibility to somehow bookmark a thread and to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: decrapify your kernel config

2009-12-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: To disable namespace, enable embedded, leave everything on, and you will find you can now disable namespaces. did that, as well as the other suggestions by Volker, recompiled kernel sits there and waits until I re-emerged stuff related to that patch-2.6-issue ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works.

[gentoo-user] Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, This came up maybe a month ago on some of my machines. Now I'm updating the MythTV network of 3 dedicated machines and I'm seeing the same thing. The machines are clean with emerge -DuN @world but stuck in what appears to be an endless loop of @preserved-rebuild's. I've been through the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-02 Thread Zeerak Waseem
Nope, but if there isn't a particular reason for using thunderbird (ie. some function unlikely to be found in other clients). But opera webbrowser comes with an email client built into it, and if you use a panel view, well you'll get a nice little tree called mailing lists :-) So if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: threads in thunderbird (WAS:decrapify your kernel config)

2009-12-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:01:09 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone know of a helpful addon for thunderbird which allows to simply follow threads on mailinglists? I always think of the possibility to somehow bookmark a thread and to be able to quickcheck all these threads for

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake - need help

2009-12-02 Thread sean
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, unfortunately I have no experience with cmake. The current version of kde-base/step-4.3.4 fails because it cannot find the eigen2 include directory. (I have created a bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295411 ) Looking at

[gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-02 Thread Kirill Lipatov
For some reason Steam fails to start any games on my gentoo box. I am using wine 1.1.32 with the engine itself and the games all downloaded to gentoo's partition (not the ntfs3g problem). Steam itself loads fine, but when I click launch the game nothing happens. This is very said because Steam is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection... (solved)

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: - which makes me ask: What is your exact error message? I'll

[gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey config_MYWLAN=( dhcp ) preferred_APS= ( myWLAN ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a

[gentoo-user] Re: Once again the emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

2009-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   This came up maybe a month ago on some of my machines. Now I'm updating the MythTV network of 3 dedicated machines and I'm seeing the same thing. The machines are clean with emerge -DuN @world but stuck in what

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-02 Thread Zeerak Waseem
This is my etc/conf.d/net file: modules=( wpa_supplicant ) wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext preferred_aps=(ESSID1 ESSID2) essid_wlan0=any All specific stuff is in /wpa_supplicant/supplicant.conf Zeerak On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0100, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I have wireless working

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-02 Thread Crístian Viana
KDE 4 doesn't have an official network manager yet. you can use net-misc/wicd, it works nice. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:17 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically:

Re: [gentoo-user] Valve Steam on gentoo

2009-12-02 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Thu, 12/03, Kirill Lipatov wrote: === Any ideas? === There are many, many Windows applications that don't run under Wine. Especially games. That's probably one of them. Even if they do, they usually run only with certain video cards. Usually Nvidia. -- Keith Dart -- --