Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:46:29 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 15 Nov 2011 21:36:14 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 15.11.2011 20:39, schrieb Mick: Thankfully this didn't happen on my machine, but I have to fix this all the same ... Is it possible to press F5 (the

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to

[gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have on my system. I found several suggestions on the net but none seems promising.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 17, 2011 4:07 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:03:52 +0100 Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Greetings normally using i686 i am discovering now the world of x86_64 on an extra partition under Intel Core i5. Some astounding differences, but i will manage. Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Pandu Poluan: On Nov 17, 2011 4:07 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to get this directory and how to fill it? :) That directory *is* normally empty, unless

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: Hartmut Figge wrote: Now i run 'eclean -p packages' which leads to the information, that there is no /usr/portage/packages. And indeed, so it is. How to get this directory and how to fill it? :) Here you go: buildpkg Binary packages will be created for all packages that are merged.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: [...] One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved things over from the 750Gb. I then added the 750Gb to the VG and resized the file system. So, in theory the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 17 November 2011 08:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for dropping kdepim. I used to love kaddressbook and kontact (but a lot of that was enthusiasm about features that were just around the corner). I found that I was having consistent problems keeping my contacts between

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread James Broadhead
On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? According to LXDE wiki (1) you need HAL, which I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 17, 2011 4:51 PM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2011 09:07, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:17:23 -0600, Dale wrote: FEATURES=buildpkg sandbox parallel-fetch --keep-going Shouldn't --keep-going be in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? -- Neil Bothwick Vuja De: the feeling that you've never been here before. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? The simplest option is to emerge uam. -- Neil Bothwick Will the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-17 02:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:33:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I think i7-2600k is the sweet spot right now. It's working nicely for me. I can't believe the difference in compile times, it's almost like using a binary distro. Wow, sounds

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread masterprometheus
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 16.11.2011 19:05, schrieb masterprometheus: Oh I would definitly do that (overclock it I mean). But if there isn't someone with the same name, you've said : I ask myself if I need the K-version at all, I don't want to overclock ... Change of heart ?

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 11:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:11 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: When I need to mount a removable USB device on LXDE (~amd64) I currently manually issue the mount command. What do I need to do to make automounting possible? The simplest option is to

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:43:28 AM Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: [...] One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved things over from the 750Gb. I then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 11/15/2011 10:55 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. And when happy, put them in the config file: daniel@moja ~ $ grep threads .mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=4 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: 1. udev rules: mounts automatically, with pmount can do non-root un-mounting 2. mdev: according to the man page works only at system boot 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot un-mount I suppose I'll go with

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 03:06 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:22:35 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: 3. uam: does not require fiddling with udev rules but cannot un-mount 3 is wrong, you can unmount with pmount, exactly the same as with 1. uam is basically a set of udev rules that

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:58:03 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: The ArchWiki link on Udev posted by James shows how to set a rule for un-mounting: ACTION==remove, ENV{dir_name}!=, RUN+=/bin/su tomk -c '/usr/bin/pumount /media/%E{dir_name}' Based on your feedback I suppose the same can be

[gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a 3-disk 250GB RAID-1 that I use for short term, on the machine backups. It's normally not mounted unless I'm doing a quick save. Unfortunately it's a bit too small these days so I'm therefore going to convert it to a 3-disk RAID-5 which will double it's size. I'm pretty sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself will still be 250GB so I'll need to resize the file system. In the past I've done this with

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:43:28 AM Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.11.2011 07:50, schrieb Dale: [...] One more question. I have two drives. A 250Gb and a 750Gb. Originally the data was on the 750Gb drive. I set the 250Gb up on LVM then moved things over from

Moving partitionless (hypothetical) (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line? )

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself will still be 250GB so

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to RAID-5 conversion, but once it's done I believe the file system itself will still be 250GB so

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:01:46 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:    I'm pretty sure I've got the command set right to do the RAID-1 to RAID-5 conversion, but

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:37:59 -0600, Dale wrote: Also, this will only work if the VG has sufficient unused space (eg. not used by LVs) on the other disk(s) to accomodate the data moved. Thanks. Clear as mud now. lol I'm getting there. Is there a tool to see if there is enough room to

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP At this point I was told: Now, resize your filesystem to use the additional space. So, if at this point the end-block of sda6 isn't 976768064

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP At this point I was told: Now, resize your filesystem to use the

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading gcc: both 4.4 and 4.5 needed?

2011-11-17 Thread James
Willie Wong wwong at math.princeton.edu writes: It makes gcc-4.5.3 use a newer method to detect parallelism, thus (potentially) makes programs compiled by gcc to have better multithreaded performance. Now, why can't the USE descriptions be like the kernel option descriptions and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Ok, I thought you had it clear how you were going to resize the raid, and needed help resizing the filesystem that already existed on top of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:59:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Yes, resize would be done to /dev/md?. I agree. However I don't believe that I'd use Neil's suggestion of fdisk block numbers on /dev/md, right? That doesn't make sense to me and I don't beleieve Neil was suggesting anything like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Ok, I thought you had it clear how you were going to resize the raid,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages missing

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:17:23 -0600, Dale wrote: FEATURES=buildpkg sandbox parallel-fetch --keep-going Shouldn't --keep-going be in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? It should and it was. I must have pasted it from somewhere and not noticed it. No need in it being in both places

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:59:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Yes, resize would be done to /dev/md?. I agree. However I don't believe that I'd use Neil's suggestion of fdisk block numbers on /dev/md, right? That doesn't make

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 Nov 2011 09:44:35 James Broadhead wrote: On 17 November 2011 08:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for dropping kdepim. I used to love kaddressbook and kontact (but a lot of that was enthusiasm about features that were just around the corner). I found that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible for F5 to delete all contacts in Kmail?!!!

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:01:44 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I did not manually edit anything on the addressbook in question (and the user in question would not know how to do that). I am told that she just pressed the F5 button and bang! All contacts gone in an instant! To me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2011-11-17 11:44, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2011-11-17 02:27, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:33:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I think i7-2600k is the sweet spot right now. It's working nicely for me. I can't believe the difference in compile times, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] sdhc card on eeepc701 running gentoo

2011-11-17 Thread Érico Porto
You are correct, the internal card reader was the problem, I tried today in a Dell Vostro running ubuntu, and everything worked nice, even tried in another Dell laptop with windows, and the card was recognized as well. It seems the problem is indeed my hardware, so I'm buying a usb card reader to

[gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Érico Porto
Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Érico Porto wrote: Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm kidding right? http://www.gentoo.org/news/20100125-misa-guitar-interview.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical partitions independently? (/dev/sdwhatever instead of /dev/md6 directly?) Is there a reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:13:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Right now I have everything built with rather CPU-specific CFLAGS. Specific L1/L2-cache-sizes and stuff, set after doing something like gcc -Q --help=target -march=native (gentoo wiki). I wonder if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: OK, so returning to your original response, you suggest increasing the size of each physical partition and then resizing each of the physical partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device that is then partitioned? If the latter, you should certainly work with the md device. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Process to resize ext3 file system at the command line?

2011-11-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:13:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Do you have separately partitioned drives with those partitions arranged into single-partition arrays, or do you have one RAID device that is then partitioned?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread James
Érico Porto ericoporto2008 at gmail.com writes: Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Yes, on lots of arch's all sorts of small file systems. You should post to the list gentoo-embedded. SH, ppc, arm, mips

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 18, 2011 6:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Érico Porto wrote: Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm kidding right?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 18, 2011 6:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Érico Porto wrote: Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto Someone put

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:37:59 -0600, Dale wrote: Also, this will only work if the VG has sufficient unused space (eg. not used by LVs) on the other disk(s) to accomodate the data moved. Thanks. Clear as mud now. lol I'm getting there. Is there a tool to see if there

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] embedded gentoo?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:51:55 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Érico Porto wrote: Hi, Has anyone here ever tried to build a really small filesystem to embed gentoo into some non x86 hardware? Pure curiosity. Érico V. Porto Someone put Gentoo on a guitar once. Think I'm

[gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-17 Thread 俞强
i had installed CUPS-1.4.3 from source(configure, make, make install) now i can configure print via localhost:631, and the test page is perfect. but the problem is, why can't i see the print in programs ? (etc. in firefox, file-print, there is no print in print dialog) thanks all -- Good

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't use print after installed CUPS ?

2011-11-17 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:41 AM, 俞强 qiangl...@gmail.com wrote: i had installed CUPS-1.4.3 from source(configure, make, make install) now i can configure print via localhost:631, and the test page is perfect. but the problem is, why can't i see the print in programs ? (etc. in firefox,

Re: [gentoo-user] USB automount with LXDE

2011-11-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/17/2011 04:54 P, Neil Bothwick wrote: I thought that pcmanfm, the LXDE file manager, had a context menu option to unmount. Me too, and I think that a long time ago I did have it, but now it's not there. Probably I'd better try on the lxde mailing list. thanks, raf