Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp . It is in binary format is updated when I reboot. Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb safely deleted ? It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show its contents. I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:28:54 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: IIRC, @system is not in @world unless you put it there yourself. (This might depend on your portage version, though). I'm sure I once saw a comment in a portage version that @system was being included in

Re: [gentoo-user] Logout of Desktop Hangs on Laptop

2011-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: I have a new laptop with LXDE and XFCE4 installed for the desktop environment. I boot to run level 3 and then run startx. When logging out of the either desktop it never returns to the command prompt, there's just a blank screen and I can not switch to an alternate terminal.

Re: [gentoo-user] Logout of Desktop Hangs on Laptop

2011-03-11 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk...@optonline.net writes: Ugh... - Original Message -From: Alex Schuster Date: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:47 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] Logout of Desktop Hangs on LaptopTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org dhk writes: I have a new laptop with LXDE and XFCE4 installed for the desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours more (so it took 12 hours total) it

Re: [gentoo-user] LXDE

2011-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: I want to use LXDE as a Desktop on a fresh install of Gentoo on a laptop (amd64). It seems to work, but when I logout it hangs. It never returns to the command prompt and the keyboard doesn't work so I can switch to an alternate terminal. Has anyone had this problem and know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, /usr/portage/category/package. Alternatively, you can use

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel Heemann writes: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:21:32 Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Ctrl-Z bg I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 21:44, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote: tmux is better that screen in a variety of ways. Many of those ways are minor, however all together and in total they're significant enough. You may want to stay with screen if you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I agree with Stroller, tmux seems like the way to go. I do not use it (yet), because I already know screen, but it is on my to do list, after some postings here. Do share. I use screen here to but plan to look into tmux. Right now, I have no clue what

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Ctrl-Z bg But I really suggest using screen for this. Then you can detach the shell with Ctrl-A D, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I'm having trouble with this again. I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cut replacement with bash builtins

2011-02-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I'm currently streamlining some of my shell scripts to avoid unnecessary process calls where bash itself is powerful enough. At the moment, I want to replace stuff like this: string='foo:bar:foo' second_field=$(echo $string | cut -d : -f 2) # should read bar My

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: On 02/25/2011 05:36 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Did you remember to restart the sshd on your amd64 system? If not, try disabling the new high performance stuff on the client. I had a problem logging into a solaris box until i disabled it. In my ~/.ssh/config file I added;

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage overlay: howto find installed packages

2011-02-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Giampiero Gabbiani asks: Is there a way in order to know how which packages were installed from a given overlay? Yes: eix -I --in-overlay overlay Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Mike Edenfield wrote: Near as I can tell, your problem originates here: [nomerge ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.6.0 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.6.0-r1 [ebuild R ~] kde-base/nepomuk-4.6.0 [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/polkit-kde-kcmodules-0.98_pre20101127 [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] plenty of strange sshd-logs... what does it mean?

2011-02-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Jarry writes: I just noticed my /var/log/sshd.log is suddenly somehow big. After checking it out I have found a lot of messages like this: 2011-02-21T03:49:21+00:00 obelix sshd[19767]: SSH: Server;Ltype: Version;Remote: my.ip.add.ress-56254;Protocol: 2.0;Client: OpenSSH_5.8p1-hpn13v10

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Oh I see. You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ? If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version. X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in four weeks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded system. Thanks. You may want to check on Damn Small

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant Edwards writes: On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: In case someone else also wants to setup this, here's the final steps to make relaying work. Relaying does not work yet, I get a Relay access denied (in reply to RCPT TO command) error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail to {root,wonko}@wonkology.org. That's all I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Cedric Sodhi writes: There are several reasons why portage, neither the tree nor (especially not) the distfiles should reside in /usr. /var is expected to be heavily written and read from, as it is the case with the portage tree. That's why I have /var/portage, with subdirectories tree,

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. Emacs. If you dare to go this way. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Cedric Sodhi writes: Replying to the three before messages which basically made the point that one can change the location manyually. [...] It does not conform with any accepted standard, it is wrong per se, it should be changed. THIS is the point, please, as I already said in my first

[gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work? - attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor - boot from rescue CD - dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb - remove sda, attach sdb to where sda was - reboot - add other

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: On Mon, Jan 31 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: There is a PC with a 160 GB SATA drive, and I want to replace it with one of about 1 TB in size. Would this work? - attach 2nd drive via SATA port or USB-SATA convertor - boot from rescue CD - dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
I just wrote: My only fear is that the different drive geometry will be a problem, so Grub does not find its stage2 in /boot, or file systems will unreadable due to things being specified as head, cylinder and sector, instead of absolute blocks. I'm pretty confident that there should be no

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Monday 31 January 2011 21:19:44 Alex Schuster wrote: Now I'm really really sure there will be no problem. What I wrote above about the gemotry is true I think, but all modern drives seem to have 255 heads and 63 sectors per track, so they will be compatible. Does this also

[gentoo-user] Cloning a directory hierarchy, but not the content

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer need for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du -m to my log directory so I can check what files are on which drive without having to attach the drive. Works, though a better method would

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a directory hierarchy, but not the content

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:58:13 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi there! I am currently putting extra backups to old hard drives I do no longer need for other purposes. After that I send the putput out ls -lR and du -m to my log directory so I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a directory hierarchy, but not the content

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:27:59 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I just wrote a little script that does this, but it does not do the sparse file thing yet, and would have problems with newline in file names. And I guess someone already wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a directory hierarchy, but not the content

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Use `truncate -s size file` It creates a sparse file if the specified file is smaller than the specified size. It will also create a new file if it does not yet exist. Nice one. First I did not see an improvement over using dd to create the sparse file, but in

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a directory hierarchy, but not the content

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Etaoin Shrdlu writes: On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:45:30 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I should have added that, to do it safely, the target should reside higher than the source in the hierarchy, or it should be on a different filesystem and in that case -xdev should be specified

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world, USE flags and packages that aren't there

2011-01-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: Hi all, I've got a PC that I use as a media computer, music, videos etc. I haven't updated it in ages so decided now is the time to give it a go. I issue the command, and subsequently get: *** harold ~# emerge --pretend -NuD world

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia nouveau on nVidia 8600M GT

2011-01-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Using nvidia.ko, KDE with desktop effects enabled (especially translucent popup thumbnails on the task bar, and blur effect on) makes my notebook fan run all the time and kwin uses 20% cpu according to top. Does the blur effect do anything? With my ATI card, I did not

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

2011-01-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:59:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe a cron job that no matter what reloads the old rules 1 hour later? Wouldn't at make more sense? You don't want the thing to keep reloading your old config, at will do it once, and you can remove the task

Re: [gentoo-user] NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?

2011-01-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: What would be the best solution? What do you prefer? I haven't tried FreeNX, x2go or NeatX or any of those, but I'm using nxserver-freeedition for years and using the official NX Client

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-23 Thread Alex Schuster
kashani writes: On 1/22/2011 1:34 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I handle it with Postfix. Dovecot is only imap and won't accept main directly. Whoops. 1. install postfix with USE sasl or devecot-sasl, I don't believe it matters which. Add the following lines to the bottom of /etc/postfix

[gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay

2011-01-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! On my desktop PC, I have set up ssmtp with access data for my mail server, so things like smartmontools or portage can send me emails. This is working fine. But there are other PCs in the LAN, which I would also like to get status emails from. Being not the only one with root access

[gentoo-user] NX, FreeNX, Neatx, x2go?

2011-01-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm using various versions of NX to access remote servers. Normally I use FreeNX, but sometimes NX from nomachine.org, and I also gave Neatx a try, depending on which OS I am using - I do this with Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE. This does not work too well. For example, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Find root partition

2011-01-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the root partition. After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what

Re: [gentoo-user] disk error, where?

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Stefan G. Weichinger writes: Would someone help me out on this issue? I have a flaky disk in a server, and dmesg says: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1835240116 Uh-oh. I suggest emerging badblocks, and then do a 'badblocks /dev/sdb' to see which and how many blocks are

Re: [gentoo-user] why always display this when kernel start

2011-01-14 Thread Alex Schuster
doherty pete writes: when kernel start ,display this Your system seems to be missing critical device files in /dev ! Although you may be running udev or devfs, the root partition is missing these required files ! To rectify this situation, please do the following: mkdir /mnt/fixit

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-disk-utility: compilation failed

2011-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Pat writes: I'm trying to update system and got compilation error for gnome-disk-utility. The build.log and environment files are included. Please could you help me? Try this: emerge -u lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht wrote: What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? With rc_interactive=YES in /etc/rc.conf (with baselayout2, I'm not sure how that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling debugging symbols only for specific packages

2011-01-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: Is there a way to enable debugging symbols only for some packages? I need to do that for about 15 packages. Currently, all I can do is edit make.conf all the time when emerging one of those and add -g to CFLAGS and splitdebug to FEATURES. But I *always* forget

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloned partition won't emerge some packages

2011-01-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I used: tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - ) to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I want to run some tests from it). The file.list has this is in it: tmp/* proc/* sys/* dev/* etc/mtab

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloned partition won't emerge some packages

2011-01-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:11:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: I used: tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - ) to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I want to run some tests from it). The file.list has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Jörg Schaible writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I would be surprised if it had this feature. AFAIK grub is already done at this stage, the kernel has taken over. And I guess it does not know about the LABEL= syntax, and has no code to scan all devices for file system labels. I fear so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Tuesday 04 January 2011, Stroller did opine thusly: I found numerous references to this syntax going back to 2005 or so, and some major distros seem to use it as the default way of describing root= to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 27 December 2010 15:47:19 Dale wrote: Some people do use tar especially if it is over a network or something like that. I don't have the command tho since I never used it. Just for completeness: (cd [source] tar cpf - . | (cd [dest] tar xpf - ) )

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Wednesday 29 December 2010 17:50:08 Alex Schuster wrote: What Maciej said. Or, for greater security when the destination is outside the LAN: cd [source] tar xpf - . | ssh [us...@[host] 'cd [dest] tar xpf -' That's what I was looking for - a single

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Mike Edenfield writes: The tar method you're looking for is: tar -C /old cpf - | tar -C /new xvpf - You'll probably not want to do the entire / in a single go, since /proc, /sys, and /dev (at least) should be skipped. Copy /old/sbin - /new/sbin, etc. for all of the root folders that

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to copy /* ?

2010-12-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Joerg Schilling writes: On Linux, there is frequently gtar installed as tar and gtar is not respecting standards. Gtar in previous times was e.g. in conflict with the standard regarding to -l. Aprox. 10 years ago, I files a bug report against gtar for this standard deviation and it seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-12-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon writes: Activities. wtf are those? I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never will. But I'm not the average user. I

Re: [gentoo-user] udev: renaming eth0 to eth1 ???

2010-12-04 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: unfortunately I had to change my motherboard (the replacement is exactly the same model/type of the previous on). I booted the new board and: NO Lan. Eth0 dead it seems. It took me several long minutes before I found the following line in dmesg's log:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I get KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre: Activities. wtf are those? I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops (current screenshots are at

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I need to get to the work CVS server from home. It's not exposed to the internet but never fear! we have ssh -L and a convenient sshd host that is on the internets. So, locally ssh -Llocalhost::cvs.example.com:22 a...@gateway.example.com and tell cvs that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: Hmm, I don't get it. Why would this .ssh/config not work? Host gateway Hostname gateway.example.com http://gateway.example.com User alan LocalForward cvs.example.com:22 http://cvs.example.com:22 Host cvs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?

2010-11-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Robin Atwood writes: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: All I want is a simple email notification when $string appears in the log. I'm actually a little surprised that there isn't a syslogger which can parse stuff as it writes it out, and thus perform actions, such as mailing. I'm assuming there isn't, since no-one has

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

2010-11-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: If I reboot this machine and start KDE, Nepomuk starts a rather long-lived index of my home directory. It takes up about 30-40% cpu and lasts as much as 15 minutes sometimes. This is annoying because after a reboot I usually want to catch up on mail, rss feeds and fire

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it up to my Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] after update ssh with shared_keys don't work

2010-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Tamer Higazi writes: I updated yesterday my gentoo box. And now I can't login with SSH through shared keys on my clients Server what I did all the time. As Willie writes, you do not provide much information. Try ssh -v destination, this gives some debug information. Also try -vv and -vvv to

Re: [gentoo-user] MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE

2010-11-11 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: On 11/10/2010 06:45 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:20 -0500, dhk wrote: Lately I've been getting this MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error. It only happens when I'm logged into my home amd64 box from my office x86 box. I use ssh -X ip.add.res.s to log in. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: Hi Everyone , I am actually quite new to Gentoo , so give me a break if my question is a newbie one. Welcome :) anyway , while installing Gentoo , I got to the point where I want to compile the kernel , and for that I've done the following : emerge --sync it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with upgrading portage

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Benyamin Dvoskin writes: In the proccess of trying to understand my possible mistake I'm wondering , which stage3 file should I use ? the i686 or the i486 ? I'm trying to install it on an Asus EEEPC 1005ha netbook i686 if you want a 32 bit OS, x86_64 for 64 bit. which stage should I use ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?

2010-11-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: [...] I've run a short and long test with smartmontools and it passed both. You could also

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc gives strange error

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: I'm trying to update my glibc for now 2 weeks or so and it doesn't matter what I'm doing, I run into a strange error. /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.12.1-r3/work/build-amd64-x86_64-pc-li nux-gnu-nptl/libc_pic.a(init-first.os):(.data+0x0): multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Well, I worked on my air compressor and played in the dirt in my garden for a while and now I get this again: 2 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.263 FPS 2 frames in 7.7 seconds = 0.259 FPS D'ouch! I don't know what the issue is but it is getting on my nerves. I have not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Indexer writes: Another thing to check, is that the folder is marked +x in chmod. It may be that on reboot some automated cleaning script re-added that flag. Folders can only be listed if they are +x btw Right, but Harry would have gotten a permission denied error in this case, not a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find. I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me. I only worry that it is not being

Re: [gentoo-user] Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Kfir Lavi writes: Is there a way to search for a file that I can install, but is not currently installed in the system? Have a look here: http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2 This is not 100% reliable, as sometimes the files that get installed depend on USE flags and

Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the

Re: [gentoo-user] scrapping hal

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale asks: They are probably already moved away from hal. Everybody knows it is going and that is a bleeding edge version of xorg too. I'm still on 1.7.*. Me too. Which brings me to my next question. How is xorg 1.9 working for ya? Any gotchas? May try it here. X starts, but crashes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: So, same card as a year or so ago and same everything else but now I get only about 1/10th the frame rate. What gives? Is this a driver issue? Is OpenGL working at all? Does glxinfo produce lots of output, with 'direct rendering: Yes' near the top? If not, your're using

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade - rebuild everything?

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I just upgraded from gcc-4.4.3-r2 to gcc-4.4.4-r2 and I'm wondering if I really need to rebuild everything as it says in the guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml The guide seems to be wrong here. Rebuilding does not harm, and it makes use of tall the cool new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: I use an xorg.conf, and have the following; Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ EndSection Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking in the second directory. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/14/2010 01:58 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] You seem to have a HD 5700 card, even newer than the HD4XXX which is not yet supported. So I'd turn this option off and try again. Btw, on Gentoo testing (~arch), HD4000 cards are working very well, including

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open source driver instead of ati. I think this is correct? Sounds right. The kernel options are configured as follows Device Drivers - Generic Driver Options - * Userspace firmware loading support

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Jeff Cranmer writes: I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. Same here, with OpenGL working fine: wo...@weird ~ $ fglrxinfo IRQ's not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:45 on Saturday 18 September 2010, Florian Philipp did opine thusly: I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage grows significantly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage

2010-09-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. I was just about to write something about this. I suffered from bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 unlock 14274560

2010-09-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Valmor de Almeida writes: Filesystem isclean * Remounting root filesystem read/write ... * Setting up the Logical Volume Manager ... Internal error: Maps lock 14270464 unlock 14274560 Internal error: Maps lock 14274560 unlock 14278656 Internal error: Maps lock

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: I also cannot evaluate the real impact the position of the /-partition on the harddisk has on system performance. I read about it years ago and since than I always put the partitions always in the sequence of boot,swap,root,home onto the harddisks. May be its only

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: I plan to convert (==reinstall) my system to be 64bit. Since I have an already working and configure 32bit Gentoo- system I would like to do the migration as follows: Create another / partition somwhere on my harddisk Install/Create a new 64bit Gentoo root

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving / around...

2010-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: I think there is some misunderstanding: Before migration to 64bit: /dev/sda3 is mounted on / and contains the 32bit Gentoo /dev/sda10 is mounted on /home/mcc/migration and will contain the stuff of the 64bit Gentoo After migration I will *not* mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: Strange, I don't have pykde4-4.5.1-r1 at all. I do. What does eix pykde4 say on your system? On mine it says: *** $ eix pykde4 [I] kde-base/pykde4 Available versions: (4.4) ~4.4.1[3] 4.4.5 **4.4.!m!t[1] **4.4.!m!t[2] (4.5) ~4.5.1

[gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

2010-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Is there such a thing as a traffic/protocol analyzer for X11? I have a self-written application (using the old XView toolkit), and under certain circumstances some dialogs do not react. I had this 2 years ago under KDE 3.5, and some people now experience the same when SSH'ing from an

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 traffic analyzer

2010-09-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Adam Carter writes: Wireshark has an X11 decoder. For tcpdump you could try -vv or -vvv but i would just go straight to wireshark it will almost certainly be more useful. Of course if its inside an ssh tunnel you will only see ssh with a packet sniffer. If you're on the local box sniff lo0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Al writes: being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. At least a news server is not offically announced on http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read some, not all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Ajai Khattri writes: OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering this: # emerge -uDtpvk world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have

Re: [gentoo-user] 32to64 bit migration guide

2010-09-07 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: Is there a user friendly guide or howto to help me to migrate my 32 bit gentoo to 64 bit without loosing my settings? A similar question came up just yesterday, look for the 'Gentoo 32bit- 64bit: How?' thread. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: So far, I see no difference from 4.5.0. Nepomuk crashed two times while indexing stuff. I rebuilt it with debug flags, but could not reproduce the bug yet. But 4.5.1 just got masked, so better wait a while until trying to do the upgrade. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

2010-09-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Ajai Khattri writes: On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Dale wrote: Try this: emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 # emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1 * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: problem with PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

2010-09-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: Having my own domain, I run my own mailserver -- but it's not on my gentoo development machine. I read the emerge python code, specifically mail.py, to find how PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is handled. Reading the code lead me to (finally) realize that I need to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Looking forward to seeing how your upgrade works out. Everything compiled without a problem, and so far things seem to work fine. Well, as fine as before. Konqueror still cannot open the correct URL when clicking a link in kmail or kopete. Kontact is still at version 4.4.5, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Robin Atwood wrote: I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? Otherwise I will go with choice 2! I am running 4.5.0 for a while now, and for me it is the best KDE4 ever. Which does not mean that

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

2010-09-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I do only have KDE on here. The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login manager. Even that was broken. I had no GUI and no way to login to KDE or anything else. Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'. Replace KDE-4 with anything from

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