Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on gentoo-user. Oh my, an I have some 6500 unread e-mails... that's hard to catch up. But I'll have a look into this month then :) Wonko

[gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On 05/11/2013 15:37, Alex Schuster wrote: [kde-misc/fsrunner pulls in QT 4.8.4] This does not make any sense, does it? Actually, it does make sense, in a weird kind of way kid3 and fsrunner are not part of KDE proper (i.e. they are not shipped in the huge KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Excuse the top-posting; if I try inter-post between all those blockers you'll never find what I reply :-) I would, but for everyone else it's a mess. E-mail with line breaks is not suited for this kind of output. First I recommend to sync your tree again, just in case

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * * dev-lang/python-exec:=[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_2(-),-python_single_target_python2_6

[gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

2013-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! My @world update did not go well. It was much worse some while ago, so I just did an emerge -e @world, after manually removing stuff from /var/lib/portage/world until I got no complaints any more. I had to remove kde-misc/publictransport and kde-misc/plasma-emergelog for that. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: You are not alone, Alex, please see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486438 Thanks! Alan McKinnon writes: On 05/10/2013 20:30, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On 04/10/2013 17:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Well. Sort of. Emerge also wanted to re-merge libreoffice, I have no idea why. The same happened yesterday when I upgraded portage. Whatever :) This time, I used --exclude app-office/libreoffice to avoid this. probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I

[gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e @world a try, this should sort out the

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Kerin Millar writes: On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] (mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0 required by (mail-client/claws-mail-address_keeper-1.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-05-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote Im not a gnome user as of yet, but I can tell you that the day is coming (Gnome 3.8 I believe) when gnome will not work without PA, so you will have to install it if you want newer Gnome. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problems

2013-03-18 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: FIXED! The problem seemed to be *~-file in package.use left from my last vim session...sigh Huh? I once filed a request that *.bck files should be ignored, because NEdit creates such files per default, and was told that they already ignore those.

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart frozen X

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 02/27/2013 04:18:51 AM, Joseph wrote: I can login to the system over ssh. I've tried to restart/zap xdm it doesn't help. What else can I do to restart X? You can use the SysRq Key (I use CtrlAltPrtSc) and then RE R is okay, this resets the keyboard, and often

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: tmpfs uses as much memory as necessary and nothing more. In theory, it doesn't hurt to add all your memory to it as tmpfs will start to swap when you run out of memory. However, it is usually a better idea to unmount the tmpfs and use a regular file system whenever you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-197: what to do -- S0LVED

2013-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefan G. Weichinger writes: # cat /proc/version Linux version 3.6.11-gentoo # zgrep -i devtm /proc/config.gz CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y # mount | grep tmpfs udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=493463,mode=755) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:21:10 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: [system does not boot after UDEV upgrade] Ran into the same problem, with my sister's PC. Which I had updated from remote, so I did not see the elogs. I do not think

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

2013-02-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: So, I botched the upgrade to udev-191. I thought I'd followed the steps, but I apparently only covered them for one machine, not both. [...] Udev also complained about DEVTMPFS not being enabled in the kernel.[2] I couldn't get into X, but I could log in via getty and a

Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation

2012-12-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie WY Wong writes: Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.1 removed

2012-12-10 Thread Alex Schuster
James wrote: Python 2.7 is my default setting. I also had python 3.1 and 3.2 both installed. I read about how I should get rid of 3.1 and force those apps that need/want python 3 to use python 3.2. (makes sense but I did not fully research it). So I did these steps: emerge -C python:3.1

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira writes: Well, with 8Gb RAM, i recommend use tmpfs on PORTAGE_TMPDIR, just while u are compiling anything. Or even with 6Gb too. I have 16 GB, with 8GB for $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. There were issues with some packages having not enough space, so I have this in

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Jacques Montier writes: I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my configuration is ok or could be optimized. /tmp and

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem

2012-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
刘焕杰 writes: Hi guys, I try to install Gentoo this morning. I follow the instructions in the official website. But after I reboot, it appears like below: this is (none). unknown_domain Gentoo Linux 3.5.7 (none) login: Put the host name in /etc/conf.d/hostname, and the fully

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop and tab completion acts weird

2012-10-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I been noticing something weird. If I try to use tab completion with the genlop command, I get things like this: root@fireball / # genlop -t -f /var/-su: /etc/make.globals: No such file or directory hp-toolbox.lock ^C Similar here, with missing /etc/make.conf. It's working

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

2012-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Silvio Siefke writes: i try to install a Gentoo Vserver by Hosteurope. Im have take the last stage archive, because the vserver Archiv is old i think. When i want run emerge --sync it gives only this message: [...] ERROR: out of memory in flist_expand [receiver] rsync error: error

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

2012-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:03:59 +0200 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:50:07 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: As it says, you're out of memory. It seems you are low on RAM, what does free -m say? Maybe you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Understand Portage not

2012-09-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Silvio Siefke writes: i try to build freecad from source, in Portage is mask. I try to build the requirements, but i understand really not what portage me say with this message. !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: ls -l /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root tty 4, 64 Sep 17 20:56 /dev/ttyS0 Is the above correct permission? Those are default permissions. However those normally won't give a normal user access. You can change the permissions of that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc

2012-09-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: What the other posters said, except that you shouldn't add splitdebug in your make.conf. If you do that, it will affect all packages. What you do instead is put this text into /etc/portage/env/sys-libs/glibc (yes, it must be a text file, not a directory):

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:05 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Like Paul and many others I've never looked back. I'm no power user, and contrary to a lot of the press out there I don't think you need to be to use this distro. That's actually quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Mol writes: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Instead we get, try USE=-* :P Try MAKEOPTS='-j1' Which in fact often helps... especially for me, I am using MAKEOPTS=-j --load=4, and I often experience build

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. [...] So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it might be the processor instead that has the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you need. +1 I always start with the P/S. Well, unless I see something else unrelated letting the smoke out. Even then tho,

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Dienstag, 28. August 2012, 22:57:43 schrieb Alex Schuster: This sucks. Is it a faulty board again? Is something (the PSU?) killing the board once I turn the thing on? What will happen when I have the next board and try again? Argh. so - instead of changing

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is only one that has the features I want - AMD3+ chipset, four memory

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M would avoid this. Unless the filesystem knows

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Frank Steinmetzger writes: Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase cycle is needed for files =512 k), isn't this fairly superfluous

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Yes, I know that. But why exactly does it help to align a partition to the erasable block

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounts and uid/gid/user names

2012-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: to not to stress the SD-card of my single board computer too much I mounted a directory of my PC via NFS at my single board computer, so that compilations and other task which need to be done while installing will access the hd and not the SD-card. (The singleboard

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

2012-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: I'm currently just using a single large partition ext3. I didn't do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned as best it could be. I don't know. See if the partition's starting block is 63 as it used to be in the past. In this case the alignment

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid module format

2012-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Tamer Higazi writes: I did what you say, now the magic issue comes, the kernel drivers ARE BUILT for this kernel, here the modinfo output: tamer@office ~ $ sudo modinfo /lib/modules/3.3.8-gentoo/kernel/drivers/net/wan/wanpipe.ko +filename:

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale spent two cents: Just my two cents here. Problems like this are usually the power supply. Could it be the mobo, yes it could but the power supply is more likely, usually cheaper to replace and easier to. I had a friends puter that was acting weird, random reboots and such, it was the

[gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Two days ago, my PC suddenly died, after working fine for half a year. I used myrtcwake as usual to suspend to RAM, and it woke up in the morning. But after two minutes, the screen went blank and nothing, even SysRq, gave a reaction. I tried booting a couple of times again, and

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: ...shot in the dark: Remove as much as possible of the cards, addons, connections etc from the PC ... make in as much bare bone as possible. Done already. Check All coolers (the little ones also) for dust. Remove all dust even if it is not completly covered with

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?q

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Randolph Maaßen writes: Aaa aAaa aaa a Am 17.08.2012 10:31 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Alex, ...shot in the dark: Remove as much as possible of the cards,aadwqqqaaa www wpa www a weißes www aa Array www www www a aaa aa aadwqqqaaa aaa w

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?q

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Randolph Maaßen writes: 2012/8/17 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org mailto:wo...@wonkology.org Woow! What is going on here? Damn!! Sorry for this bad post, somehow my phone unlocked in my pocket. I'm happy for every reply, and this was a very special one :) -- Mit

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
v...@ukr.net writes: If the system behaves in such an unpredictable way (freezing at a random point), I usually check the following things: - RAM; - bloated capacitors on the Motherboard; - bloated or dried capacitors in the power supply unit; If your PC is only half a year old, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: sounds like a power problem. Either psu is gone bad (get a new one) Well, I got three old ones instead :) or your mainboard's power circuitry gone bad (if replacement of psu does not help, get a new one). It did not help :( Too bad, I probably need a new

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: If you are using a video card (instead of built-in/on-board video) I would try a different video card, if you have an old or spare one. I have had lots of video cards die from overheating and power spikes. Sorry, I did not mention that I do not have a video card, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

2012-08-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Frank Steinmetzger writes: So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

2012-08-09 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: This has been slow and painful so far. First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I think I may have gotten past that

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: [ snip ] Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to? Those seem to list partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: $ ll /dev/disk/by-id ... ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 - ../../sda ... That's a whole drive right there. Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I don't why I overlooked them... too many

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to create /dev/block, which is already existing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). See the printer example at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and adapt to your hard drive. Serial numbers should be unique, even amongst otherwise identical drives...

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I

[gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I do not understand the numbering of my hard drives. There may be some inherent logic, but whenever I make some changes, like replacing drives, or changing BIOS settings, the order changes. Maybe it's even more random. So I made some udev rules like this, and my drives are called

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

2012-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [...] Could there be another way to distinguish the drives, like looking at the partition scheme or something

Re: [gentoo-user] Python TK

2012-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Silvio Siefke writes: on my Netbook i use Sabayon, because all compile from source need much time and it was not so really run. Can i ask here a question, because i has problems with emerge. Sure, and there doesn't even seem to be a Sabayon mailing list anyway. I has Install the Game

Re: [gentoo-user] Python TK

2012-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:50:09 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: gentoo-mobile siefke # emerge --newuse --update =dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 Calculating dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. gentoo-mobile

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I rewrite all empty sectors with zeros?

2012-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: I want to backup my whole hard-drive (8 partitions) with: # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip /path/image.gz In order to achieve good compression level I'd like to wipe out all empty space with zeros. How can I do that? You can create files containing only zeros on all partitions until

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

2012-07-21 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan to do is merge the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The system's font display problem

2012-07-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Do not set anything other than LANG and LC_COLLATE. Then only set vars that differ from LANG. Your /etc/env.d/02locale should look like this: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Doug Hunley writes: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Claudio Roberto França Pereira writes: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have

Re: [gentoo-user] profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base ... Cannot create directory

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
v...@ukr.net writes: On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:51:32 +0800 microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org wrote: You forgot to disable pgo when you compile some xfce-session . What is 'pgo'? Thanks, I just used this question to finally look up the man page of the euses command, which I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver - Connection with remote peer broken

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: After upgrade I enabled KMS in the kernel for my for my Radeon card and now I can not connect client to nxserver I'm getting an error message: Connection with the remote server was shut down. Please check the state with your remote connection. My remote ssh connection is

Re: [gentoo-user] better alternative to NX

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: Are there better alternative to NX? I don't know. The commercial original version from nomachine.org (net-misc/nxserver-freeedition) was said to be somewhat faster than FreeNX (net-misc/nxserver-freenx), not sure if this is still true, but as FreeNX is dead, it's probably right.

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver - Connection with remote peer broken

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: On 07/09/12 19:07, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: Here is the log from remote nxserver: [...] nxagentXkbGetRules: WARNING! Failed to stat file [/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg]: Unknown error -1. /usr/lib64/NX/bin/nxagent: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64

Re: [gentoo-user] better alternative to NX

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: Do you have a good link how to setup net-misc/neatx on Gentoo? No. I installed Beatx once, but that was on Fedora I think. The system got another distro soon after, so Neatx was abandoned. There is no development for it any more, so the next remote desktop service was FreeNX

Re: [gentoo-user] freenx - no /var/lib/nxserver/home/ drectory

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Joseph writes: I'm setting up again freenx and following the instructions from: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_FreeNX_Server but after running: emerge -av nxserver-freenx nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge the installation did not create

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Wiki test page?

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I've got USB devices automounting on mdev and I'd like to set up a page on wiki.gentoo.org, describing the steps, and link to it from https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev Is there a way to play around on a test page and import it to the final destination? Another option

Re: [gentoo-user] Distorted Mirroed Overlapping screen with ATI Rage card

2012-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Christopher Lemire writes: I tried disabling r128 and building the raedon driver into the kernel. However, I am getting the message raedon module not found. It's not a module. It's built into the kernel. Xorg.0.log. I mistakenly typed raedom, but then fixed it to raedon, so if you see that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? Not

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a Gentoo Expert in NYC?

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Kuhl writes: I need a Gentoo Expert to take a look at this. Are there any in NYC around West 72nd? I've got to get this laptop working. After following the recomendations on building the latest kernel I don't have a system anymore. Everything on my LVM2 partitions are gone or at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: 120704 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Am 03.07.2012 20:00, schrieb David Kuhl: What's the best way to get this back without loosing the system? ... install Ubuntu (or one of its spin-offs). Ik ! Why does he need KSM ? -- Google found an article which advises : if

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend, hibernate and mount stopped working as a regular user.

2012-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Yohan Pereira writes: This happened after a recent world upgrade. I am currently using kde 4.8.4. I can however suspend, hibernate using the pm-utils as root. Google has lead me to believe this has something to do with consolekit. Or maybe sys-auth/polkit? There were issues lately with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it safe to change the start of the first partition?

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version have put it at block 1. No, it's older versions that use 63, while the new fdisk uses 2048. This way the new 4K sectors of huge drives are aligned well. It does not need to be 2048, as long as it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Not receiving emails

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi David! I only recieved one email since signing up on this list yesterday. I expected to see more traffic. There's nothing going to spam, I'm not sure it I should repost or not. The forum doesn't seem to have it either. Your mails arrive just fine, I see six altogether. You can see them

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Laptop Looks to be Trashed

2012-07-03 Thread Alex Schuster
David Kuhl writes: I'm so stuck with this Gentoo laptop. It started with a standard update which was the first in three months. Then when the X didn't run due to xorg-server getting upgraded, the 3.3.8 gen kernel was suppose to be built with KSM. That failed due to mkfs_ext2.h. The a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: Seriously though, why not use make install? That way you know the right files get copied and given the expected names. Because I name my kernel and config the same thing. I also don't like the way it does that link thingy it does. It seems to expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Helmut Jarausch writes: On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: [...] which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. I cannot tell you if kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount

2012-06-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 from this disk: [...] which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 24/06/12 13:49, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, yesterday I run emerge and run into problem with Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8. It won't compile (also broadcom-sta driver won't rebuild) [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8

2012-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Samuraiii writes: yesterday I run emerge and run into problem with Nvidia 295.59 driver on kernel 3.3.8. [...] Unpacking source... Unpacking NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.59.run to /tmp/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.59/work Source unpacked in

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 requires SIP v4.13.3 or later

2012-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I'm doing my KDE4 upgrades and ran into this: [...] Error: This version of PyQt requires SIP v4.13.3 or later [...] I notice tho that portage seems to have failed to notice this was needed. Should I file a bug report or is this just me? File a bug. There is a DEPEND line in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Pandu Poluan writes: Just in case anyone missed it: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4I That URL cannot be found. This seems to work for me: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/StQB1ftUp8D Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linus ranting about Gnome3

2012-06-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Alex Schuster writes: Pandu Poluan writes: Just in case anyone missed it: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/UkoAaLDpF4I That URL cannot be found. This seems to work for me: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/StQB1ftUp8D Argh, but it's the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:57:42 -0700 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Today emerge is asking me to add =sys-fs/udev-171-r6 hwdb to package.use to appease udisk. Just as before, this looks fishy to me and I would like to get your opinion about how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Building a binary package without installing

2012-06-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:25:38 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wish to build a binary package of glibc-2.14.1-r3. I don't want to actually install it on my system. Just build a tbz2 for it to use on another system. Is there a way to do that? emerge -B atom

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: I've just kicked off an emerge -NuD world and will now head out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, libreoffice, Firefox Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to know where the emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge in great

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge any gcc

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Ezequiel Garcia writes: I found something strange. What should I have in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu? Currently: $ ls bin binutils-bin gcc-bin lib Same here on ~amd64, except for an additional i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/ directory, containing broken symlinks only, which belongs to no package.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control size of /run (tmpfs)?

2012-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Jarry wrote: On 26-May-12 22:01, Dale wrote: Jarry wrote: after updating baselayout from 2.0.3 to 2.1-r1 /run is mounted as tmpfs. But I can not find any mount-option for controlling how much memory is (or could be) used for it. Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Available

Re: [gentoo-user] Epiphany freezes

2012-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Jakub Daniel writes: every time i open facebook and enter anything into the search field and click any of the results epiphany freezes, then i can only force quit. I know this is not the best description but could anyone, please, suggest how to try to debug this? Does it also happen with

Re: [gentoo-user] udevd boot messages

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: *Especially* for servers, there really, REALLY needs to be a way to see this kind of warning BEFORE updating... ie, the warning should be printed to the screen during an 'emerge -pvuDN world' or something, so I know that a reboot will be required for this update.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something is merely controlling the speed appropriately. The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the

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