Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29328...@n03/5018717650/

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Enlightened User
On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote: My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Two pictures posted: Top half of boot screen:

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] yaboot has kicked my butt - 5 times?!

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Enlightened User li...@nc.rr.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Jezak jos...@gentoo.org wrote:  My responses are inline this time. It's easier when there's so much going on! On 09/23/10 16:41,

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd segmentation fault and spamassassin will not emerge

2010-09-24 Thread covici
Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I thought seg faults were usually hardware does it happen at the same point every time? I don't know as core is not dumped, but running perl-cleaner did fix it -- weird. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How

[gentoo-user] Anyone using fsarchiver to backup their Linux filesystems?

2010-09-24 Thread Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang E nming) 张恩鸣
fsarchiver: http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page I am using it to backup my Linux ext4 filesystems and Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2) logical volumes. Here is a very simple Linux shell script which I wrote to backup my /boot filesystem as well as the host operating system's volume group.

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Bad news It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos. The old version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a filename beginning with Flash. Which tends to fill up disk space, if not wiped regularily

[gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

2010-09-24 Thread dhk
After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under Monitor Preferences the monitor is Unknown,

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

2010-09-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be 1280x1024. Gnome-System-Preference-Monitors Under

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd segmentation fault and spamassassin will not emerge

2010-09-24 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 14:27 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I thought seg faults were usually hardware No segfaults are usually software or, more specifically (C) programming errors. It's when an application attempts to access a memory location that it's not assigned to.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Remove all traces of yast and it's bastard brethren from the SuSE box. 2. Have three qualified sysadmins double check that you have indeed removed every last trace of it. 3. PREFIX=/some/stage/dir/ 4. ./configure make make install No,

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

2010-09-24 Thread dhk
On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest 1024x768 where it use to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor Resolution

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 05:38, dhk wrote: On 09/24/2010 07:06 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 06:47 -0400, dhk wrote: After a recent xorg upgrade my display hasn't been quite right. It's all usable, but it looks like the resolution is wrong. The resolution is now set at the highest

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad in general for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com mailto:b...@thehenderson.com wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.comwrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Friday 24 September 2010 10:26:54 pm Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? true. -- - Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 09/24/10 09:56, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com mailto:bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/24/10 09:48, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com

[gentoo-user] Mystery: powertop shows emerge causing wake-ups, but emerge is not running.

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, When running powertop on an idle system, I noticed that emerge is in the list of items causing wake-ups. It is virtually always 8.0 wake-ups per 10 second sample (occasionally 8.1 wake-ups, maybe a result of rounding). It is always there. The puzzling bit is that emerge is not running at

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Beau Henderson
On 09/24/10 08:11, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/22/2010 12:23 AM, Beau Henderson wrote: On 09/22/10 07:31, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 16:38:05 Paul Hartman wrote: I haven't had any crashing or failing to start, but Firefox in Linux has always been pretty bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about build parameters seriously. ICC is the Intel C compiler. Ahh..

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ...    Uh, what are PGO and ICC??    I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on    Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-24 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 21:18, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is

[gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) But

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone

[gentoo-user] iwl5000 firmware fails to load

2010-09-24 Thread James
Folks, I am having a fairly strange problem with my iwl5000 and the microcode. After a fresh install Gentoo install wireless works with no issues. Upon installing a set that includes xorg, Firefox, hal, VirtualBox, etc. the wireless ceases to work. Check out a snippet from my dmesg: ~ % dmesg |

Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: ... Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-24 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: $sudo gui-admin No protocol specified gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 ( Assume gui-admin is an X

[gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-24 Thread felix
I have recently discovered Dropbox as an interesting thing to experiment with, not without its drawbacks, but interesting. I have it running on a work Mac laptop and an Android phone, and it is another interesting idea to put it on Linux. However, its downloads are for Fedora and Ubuntu, or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-24 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 24 September 2010 21:11, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So the question is ... does anyone have experience with Dropbox on gentoo?  My system is ~amd64, running fvwm when necessary, neither KDE nor Gnome.  I'd really like a command line program which I could run for manual syncing. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-24 Thread felix
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:43:11PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I'm using nautilus-dropbox. It's working fine, not the slightest problem. I rarely use Nautilus, though. All access is through the CLI. If you don't want the daemon running all the time then don't start it automatically. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox, cli, and all that

2010-09-24 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 24 September 2010 21:58, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:43:11PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: I'm using nautilus-dropbox. It's working fine, not the slightest problem. I rarely use Nautilus, though. All access is through the CLI. If you don't want the daemon running