Apparently, though unproven, at 05:28 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix Miata did
opine thusly:
On 2011/05/13 22:35 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:
Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried run emerge --sync
.bash_history tells me I did this twice prior to your response...
and emerge -vauND
Hello all,
Building myself a new media center setup.
I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def
video.
Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place.
Normal Gentoo install.
How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC?
Which
Apparently, though unproven, at 08:42 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Coert
Waagmeester did opine thusly:
Hello all,
Building myself a new media center setup.
I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def
video.
Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its
On Fri, 13 May 2011 07:19:35 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote:
KDE did seem to drop the ball a bit with their management of the
transition from KDE3 to KDE4.
There's no doubt it could have been a lot better. The problem was that it
was based on their prediction that 4.0 would be a dev release while 4.1
On 2011/05/14 08:25 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed:
Felix Miata composed:
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk].
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- media-libs/libcanberra-0.26 (Change USE:
On Sat, 14 May 2011 08:42:38 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC?
Which (xdm,kdm,etc) should I use for this?
Or should I just start an xsession with xbmc out of some sort of init
script?
On the XBMC forum I have found this link, and
On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:47:43 -0400, Andrey Moshbear wrote:
Is the bs=2M important? Should one use the block size of the drive?
Speed improvement.
If you're doing a backup of a rather large disk, I duggest piping to
bzip2 or gzip. Unless the free space is random padding, even the
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix Miata did
opine thusly:
On 2011/05/14 08:25 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed:
Felix Miata composed:
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk].
!!! One of the
Hi, Gentoo.
Two questions about Portage whose ansers I haven't found in the fine
manuals:
1. Where is it specified what is in system in the same way that
world is in the file /var/lib/portage/world?
2. How does emerge know which mutt to build when I do emerge mutt?
There are three candidate
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:31 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Gentoo.
Two questions about Portage whose ansers I haven't found in the fine
manuals:
1. Where is it specified what is in system in the same way that
world is in the file
On Tue, 10 May 2011 16:48:15 -0500
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
PH On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Alexander Tiurin
PH ar...@fromru.com wrote:
PH I tried add consolefont to boot or default runlevel, but
PH consolefont is not start
PH
PH consolefont is in openrc, did you
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 07:39:03AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
Greetings,
i am always booting to a console and switch later to X using startx. Now
i have noticed a message appearing after typing the password:
i5 login:
Password:
Last login: Sat May 14 06:58:55 CEST 2011 on
On Saturday 14 May 2011 11:21:51 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix Miata
did
opine thusly:
On 2011/05/14 08:25 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed:
Felix Miata composed:
Is it telling me I have to change my USE from -gtk to
Howdy,
After the recent openrc/baselayout upgrade, I notice something missing.
Sometimes after a update I switch to single user then switch back to the
default runlevel. I notice when I switch to single user mode, I can see
the services stopping like usual. However, when I switch back to
Nicolas Sebrecht:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 07:39:03AM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote:
Same thing happens after switching from X to a console with e.g.
ctrl-altl-F2. Hm? :)
You may have a service in the wrong runlevel called boot.
Mhm, i do not see how the runlevel 'boot' can be involved by
On 2011/05/14 12:52 (GMT+0100) Mick composed:
BTW, my 3rd kernel did solve my video on ttys problem, and get me access
to my EXT2 partition. :-)
Have you read and applied http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml to find
out how to configure your card and xorg?
Reading section 2.2
Am 14.05.2011 07:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge:
Greetings,
i am always booting to a console and switch later to X using startx. Now
i have noticed a message appearing after typing the password:
i5 login:
Password:
Last login: Sat May 14 06:58:55 CEST 2011 on tty1
* WARNING: you
As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG
LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX).
In which file are they supposed to be set these days ?
--
Alain DIDIERJEAN Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:38:04AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Felix Miata composed:
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk].
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- media-libs/libcanberra-0.26 (Change
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG
LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX).
In which file are they supposed to be set these days ?
/etc/env.d/02locale
W
--
Willie W. Wong
Florian Philipp:
Am 14.05.2011 07:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge:
i am always booting to a console and switch later to X using startx. Now
i have noticed a message appearing after typing the password:
i5 login:
Password:
Last login: Sat May 14 06:58:55 CEST 2011 on tty1
* WARNING:
Hi, Alan.
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:51:14PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:31 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
1. Where is it specified what is in system in the same way that
world is in the file /var/lib/portage/world?
That is
Am 14.05.2011 16:09, schrieb Hartmut Figge:
Florian Philipp:
Am 14.05.2011 07:39, schrieb Hartmut Figge:
i am always booting to a console and switch later to X using startx. Now
i have noticed a message appearing after typing the password:
i5 login:
Password:
Last login: Sat May
Am 14.05.2011 16:09, schrieb Willie Wong:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone (LANG
LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX).
In which file are they supposed to be set these days ?
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:28 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix Miata
did
opine thusly:
Is it telling me I have to change my USE from -gtk to +gtk, or can emerging
one of those 8 packages listed satisfy the dep? IOW,
Coert Waagmeester lgroups at waagmeester.co.za writes:
How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC?
There are a multitude of approaches to this sort of functionality.
Searching out keywords, such as kiosk, gentoo and other relevant
strings will yield some interesting reading
On 2011/05/14 10:37 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:30:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's telling you that you must enable USE=gtk for libcanberra for that build
to succeed. The chain of packages listed won't solve the problem, they are
causing it.
Easiest is to
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:00:03PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/05/14 10:37 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:
Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify such
things
per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for everything.
:)
Yes, for sure. :-)
On 2011/05/14 10:06 (GMT-0400) Willie Wong composed:
The above listing shows that phonon will be built with the vlc use
flag, so clearly you haven't trimmed USE down to just
bash-completion, ncurses, samba, slang, xattr. In fact, if you had
done so you would've also trimmed out cxx, posix, and
On 2011/05/14 11:04 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/05/14 10:37 (GMT-0400) Indi composed:
Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify such
things
per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for everything.
:)
Yes, for
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount
to a minimal install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to
switch to it instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually
ready to enable X, switching back to
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:31 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan
Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Gentoo.
Two questions about Portage whose ansers I haven't found in the fine
manuals:
1. Where is it
On Saturday 14 May 2011 16:07:33 Felix Miata wrote:
Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount to a
minimal install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to switch to it
instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually ready to enable X,
switching back to kde?
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:20:01PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/05/14 10:06 (GMT-0400) Willie Wong composed:
The above listing shows that phonon will be built with the vlc use
flag, so clearly you haven't trimmed USE down to just
bash-completion, ncurses, samba, slang, xattr. In
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:28 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Felix
Miata did
opine thusly:
Is it telling me I have to change my USE
On 13/5/2011, at 8:27pm, Mick wrote:
...
Here's mine if you want to compare with my previously sent output:
$ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
The specific files that define the system set are called packages
OK. Some of these directories have got three parents. ;-) The people
deciding what goes into the packageses must have very
On 13/5/2011, at 8:32pm, Mick wrote:
...
$ date +%l:%M%P
8:39
That's the wall-clock time (p.m.) in my local time-zone. What Americans
call daylight savings time, though how they imagine any time is saved I
don't know.
From `man date`:
%l hour ( 1..12)
...
%M
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:38 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Kevin O'Gorman
did opine thusly:
/etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and
that
Odd. Not on my system, it's not. It's a directory with two entries:
eapi: a text file, length 2, with contents
On Sat, 14 May 2011 08:38:04 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
/etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and
that
Odd. Not on my system, it's not. It's a directory with two entries:
eapi: a text file, length 2, with contents 2\n.
parent: a text file with two
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up
building the gtk interface for absolutely everything which has that
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote:
Sounds like the old 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other to me...
What makes the subtractive method better?
This is how I interpret Alan's message:
For certain flags when you enable it for a package you will have to
also enable it for its
On Saturday 14 May 2011 15:26:38 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 14.05.2011 16:09, schrieb Willie Wong:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone
(LANG LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX). In which file
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:00:02PM +0200, Willie Wong wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote:
Sounds like the old 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other to me...
What makes the subtractive method better?
This is how I interpret Alan's message:
For certain flags when
Hello list!
Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler)
using Gentoo?
I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want
to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'.
Here's what I need:
* iSCSI target
* Replication
* RAID 0 striping (redundancy will be
On Saturday 14 May 2011 20:06:18 Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:00:02PM +0200, Willie Wong wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Indi wrote:
Sounds like the old 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other to me...
What makes the subtractive method better?
This is how I
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:00:03PM +0200, Mick wrote:
Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last KDE
upgrade. I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes (scanner,
rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages and libraries.
Other flag
Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
Hello list!
Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler)
using Gentoo?
I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want
to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'.
Here's what I need:
* iSCSI target
*
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:01 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did
opine
thusly:
True, just be aware that if you enable gtk
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:51 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
Well perhaps it's nitpicking, but I like my systems as lean as possible.
I almost never emerge anything without -av options, just so I can say
no and edit package.use if need be. It rarely causes more
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:00:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:01 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
Sounds like the old 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other to me...
What makes the subtractive method better?
It's not subtractive as
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:36:29AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
There's no big harm, except that you may end up rebuilding a bunch of
packages. One way to get a lot of hands-on control on precisely what
USE you want it via the -* flag. But be VERY careful if you are
going to use it. A USE
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
No, I do not propose that one never use global use flags. I just employ
them very selectively, which is best for my needs.
OK.
I'll take that as clarifying what you said earlier. Thanks for that.
--
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:21 on Saturday 14 May 2011, William Hubbs
did opine thusly:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:36:29AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote:
There's no big harm, except that you may end up rebuilding a bunch of
packages. One way to get a lot of hands-on control on precisely
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:10:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
No, I do not propose that one never use global use flags. I just employ
them very selectively, which is best for my needs.
OK.
I'll
On 5/14/2011 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon
/etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in
$PORTDIR/profiles/ and that
Odd. Not on my system, it's not.
I bet it is:
kutulu@basement ~ $ ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
On 5/14/2011 12:01 PM, Indi wrote:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:53:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:37 on Saturday 14 May 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
True, just be aware that if you enable gtk *globally* you will end up
building the gtk interface for
Is it possible to pass a to do a one-time reboot to other than the default
kernel?
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Hmmm... that would be a nice start, thanks!
Now to figure out how to carry out RAID 0 Striping and Replication.
Do you think this 'GentooFiler' thingy I'm planning is worth it to be
suggested in [gentoo-project] ?
Rgds,
On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote:
Am 14.05.2011
Turn on the grub menu?
Rgds,
-original message-
Subject: [gentoo-user] One-time boot from alternate kernel?
From: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Date: 2011-05-15 10:46
Is it possible to pass a to do a one-time reboot to other than the default
kernel?
--
Walter Dnes
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