Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-09-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think the edit screen does but not sure about this part. Grub comes with a

Re: [gentoo-user] problems adding local overlay and ebuild

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Arnau Bria writes: I'd like to install mcollective and developer provides its ebuild. so I've followed http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Overlay for adding a local overlay. *I had a problem when adding source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf to my make.conf. That file does not exists and

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine just updated and portage said to run emerge @preserved-rebuild which I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed to emerge so here I sit. The error says something is missing which is the same reason the

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: On 2010-09-01 5:18 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I think it's not an urgent problem when this happens. With portage 2.2 and the preserve-libs FEATURE, You are assuming everyone runs unstable portage?? No, but I replied to Dale, and he apparently does

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-08-31 Thread Alex Schuster
Pau Peris writes: Hi, after following your tips the code gets like the following one: SUBSYSTEM==block, ATTR{serial}==VNVB05G2RKTRZH, NAME=hda SUBSYSTEM==block, ATTR{serial}==9QK0T4WM, NAME=sda SUBSYSTEM==block, ATTR{serial}==3QD0X58D, NAME=sdb SUBSYSTEM==block, ATTR{serial}==9QK0RS9G,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reducing repeated checkings

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Al writes: 2010/8/23 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: confcache configure knows the option `--cache-file=file': http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_14.html#SEC14 Does emerge make use of it? Is there a way to tell emerge to use it, without writing an overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. mkswap hast the option -L for this. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware Support for Netbook

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Aaron Bauman writes: I bought a new Toshiba T215D-S1150 with a AMD Athlon II Neo Processor. I am currently having issues with the livecd not booting. Everything seems to get stuck on an NeT RPC error while the kernel is booting. I was able to successfully install Ubuntu (Netbook Remix

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Mick writes: From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have set up and p*sses me off. o_O As soon as KDE starts up (even when

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. I know this effect, this happens from time to time. At the moment it is working fine, but I got used to killall kdm when the init script did not work. It did not bother me too much, so I did not

KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, they are not even mounted. From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output every minute: That will tell fcron not to log stuff. It will not tell other apps to not stuff Right

Re: [gentoo-user] creating ssh account without directory browsing

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Tamer Higazi writes: For a project I need to create ssh accounts (based on shared keys) who would be loged in a specific directory. They should only be able to login in the desired directory, but not be able for outside browsing. If you need this only for things like scp, net-misc/scponly

Re: [gentoo-user] chrony logrotate script EOF error

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: The chrony installed logrotate script keeps erroring out: logrotate_script: line 5: warning: here-document at line 2 delimited by end- of-file (wanted `EOF') Unrecognized command

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:25, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.12.1-r1 seems to not be working correctly

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: Hi. I am running the unstable gentoo 32-bit and today I emerged -- amoung other packages in a system update -- glibc-2.12.1-r1, however after doing this at least one package had an undefined reference to S_ISCHR. I tried to downgrade glibc, but apparently this

Re: [gentoo-user] open-iscsi-2.0.871.3 compile fail on 2.6.32-openvz-budarin.1 kernel

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: i got this error while trying to emerge the open-iscis-2.0.871.3: be2iscsi.o transport.o iscsid.o iscsi_sysfs.o: In function `iscsi_sysfs_get_blockdev_from_lun': iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xe71): undefined reference to `S_ISLNK' iscsi_sysfs.c:(.text+0xed3): undefined reference

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate ~/log/hdstate.log sleep 10 done Running a script

Re: [gentoo-user] --buildpkg and doing a dry run on a upgrade

2010-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I'm wanting to install the latest KDE 4.5 which is in the kde overlay. I got everything unmasked, keyworded and ready to go. Since this is a large upgrade and will take some time to compile, I would like to just build the binaries then come back and install them when the

[gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called every minute via an fcron entry, output goes into a log file, and I use the file

Re: [gentoo-user] why emerge --config don't work

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Zhu Sha Zang writes: Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh: [...] [r...@sakurazukamori /usr/src/linux]$ emerge --config =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 9:44 zsh: sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 not found Interesting. Looks like zsh treats a '=' character specially. I

[gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] Parenthese

2010-08-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Wow, what's going on here? Alan McKinnon writes: Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow. Say snow to any Eskimo, see what happens :-) Actually, they have only two words for snow: qanik for falling snow and aput for lying snow. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: You should backup all in / except /tmp/* /sys/* /proc/* /lost+found/* /dev/* Attention here, you need at least the null and console entries in /dev, or the system will not come up. I also have tty and tty1 in there, I think those were neede for tuxonice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Build PowerPC binary packages on AMD64?

2010-08-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Here's the setup: My desktop machine is a new, fast Core i7 980x processor. It is capable of doing emerge -e @world (including XFCE4, Gnome and KDE) in around 4 hours. On the other hand my MythTV backend Oh my, this is fast. server is an old PowerPC which takes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently. 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: root in LVM with ext4 as mount ext2

2010-08-12 Thread Alex Schuster
sam new writes: any one help? Yes, google. With 'rootfstype=ext4 initrd genkernel' the first hit shows bug #221245 (rootfs is incorrectly mounted as ext2). I assume you have ext4 compiled as module? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

2010-08-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Petric Frank writes: All hints are welcome. I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 11. Aug 10:48 /tmp If this ^ t is missing, do a chmod +t /tmp, and try again. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] finding out current softlevel

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
li...@gabriel-striewe.de writes: I was wondering whether there is some way to find out the current running softlevel (which I gave to the kernel line in grub's menu.lst), for example to start another window manager depending on the softlevel or whatever other possible solutions? Maybe in a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?

2010-08-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it? Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command: ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on LUKS

2010-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: I'm building a new Gentoo system (notebook) and want to rearrange a few things. I thought it would be good to have the following layout: - boot on a normal partition - root on a normal partition - one big encrypted partition (dmcrypt / LUKS) - on that partition

Re: [gentoo-user] bashcomp cannot work well with rsync

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Xi Shen writes: after i enabled bash completion for rsync, i got this error when type TAB to auto complete the file name bash: _known_hosts_real: command not found it used to work very well. do i missed something? Maybe googling :) Does this help? http://bugs.gentoo.org/301632

Re: [gentoo-user] pecl-cairo ~x86 overlay?

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael M writes: Hello list, I need to install Cairo bindings for dev-lang/php-5*. Is there a pecl-cairo overlay for ~x86? I've tried unmasking this package and adding the keyword ~amd64 and it seems to want to install with emerge but my system is ~x86. According to this site it is only

Re: [gentoo-user] courier imap over nfs

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Matt Harrison writes: Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap serving mailboxes over NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote homedirs but I can't get it working. My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout upgrade

2010-08-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: I went down the bl2/openrc path a long time ago and there were some unpleasant moments. But overall it was ok. I had no trouble at all, but I may just have been lucky. At the moment 'devfs' needs almost a freaking minute to start and I have no clue why.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dir is rwx but can't create file

2010-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch /tmp/foo = strerror(ENOENT)). However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root. Are all these directories located on the root file system? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:46:23 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Or just right click on the K thingy and select menu editor. Yeah, it's right there in K - Programs - Settings, but only because I put it there, with kmenuedit. Dale was referring to RIGHT clicking the K

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: Ok, thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for the open source drivers to mature so that I can rely on them for my needs (incl. gaming). Perhaps it's time to check them out... But, again, since I've been running the ati-drivers-10.6 for a couple of weeks without problems (that

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the K (application launcher) menu. I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the online help manual says it should exist on the K menu, or as the program kcontrol. That's how it was called in KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE control center missing?

2010-07-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: I'm using KDE 4 on Gentoo, and I want to add a few items to the K (application launcher) menu. I thought the control center was the thing to use, and the online help manual says it should exist on the K menu, or as the program

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Impossible question... Swithcing from no multilib to multilib

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 07/22/2010 12:56 PM, Andrea Momesso wrote: That's impossible, isn't it? I think so. Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch? Adobe stopped providing flash for linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: I would like to do remote pair programming with somebody on a non-Linux box. It seems that NoMachine NX or TightVNC would allow me to do so. Great. I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two

Re: [gentoo-user] Pair Programming Non-Routable IP Address

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hilco Wijbenga writes: On 22 July 2010 16:08, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I prefer NX over VNC because of its efficiency, and because it is more intelligent, but I think it has no mode to let two people access the same session at once. So I (being remote) tried starting

Re: [gentoo-user] unmounting /usr in single user mode

2010-07-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related to bash and locale (see the files below). I use grub. On the kernel line can I

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. Putting some

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Here's a list of my current KDE bugs. There are many, fortunately most of them are really minor issues. [58 KDE bugs] I forgot two. kio_thumbnail does not seem to save the results, and scans folders again, causing loads of 20. And the password dialog when the screen was blanked

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK=swap to make the device appear as /dev/swap, too. Also I'm thinking how can I instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] Hello, But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or address (6) I'd got the same message while setting

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit, it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even has web shortcuts, which are a must-have for me now. What I'm missing most

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem about my own overlay

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Chen Huan writes: I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute emerge --sync, I make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it, the output is :

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. Is there disk activity when this happens? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mateusz Mierzwiński writes: I have KDE4. It work's perfect. Whooo, now at least this sounds good! Try set Custom-cxxflags to off, maybe this will help. From my opinion KDE and QT 4 don't like customized C/CXX Flags, such as fomit-frame-pointer and similar. I have: CFLAGS=-march=k8-sse3

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hasan SAHIN writes: I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option. Can I use the -march=native option instead of that? Sure, as long as you are not using distcc, in which case the distcc servers would compile according to _their_ native

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:38:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: I used to be a big Konqueror fan until about six months ago. Then I tried Chromium and was blown away by its speed and the way it works on more sites. I do miss some of the integration of Konqueror and its kio-slaves and

Re: [gentoo-user] slow x

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
mailinglist...@gmail.com writes: My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized web browser with a page with pictures and text. If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it takes a moment. I tried ubuntu livecd, and this test was much faster,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: As the OP, I'd like to know if anybody else has noticed how far OT this thread has gone? Somebody please give it a meaningful title, and maybe the right people will notice your thread But I think the title is just perfect! Well, not really, because, despite my

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote: I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale? I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user still shows all settings as en_US.UTF-8 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox + gentoo scrolling like a snail

2010-06-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video system Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated. Similar problems are

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gcc build fails during emerge system on new 64-bit install

2010-06-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll curse

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 takes very long to make config or install

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Matthias Fechner writes: I followed now the wiki page: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 Down again. At the step to create the config file with: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and install grub2 with: grub-install /dev/sda it needs several hours to complete each of the

[gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.1.53.64 won't play in FF Konqueror

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
And again, I had already written an answer to your last posting, but then my dreaded mouse problem in KDE4 happened again, and I forgot to save the mail as draft before logging out and in again. Mick writes: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get: * Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. You could force installation with

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Tried that...python3.1 compiles fine, setuptools failed. And now? How about putting dev-python/setuptools into /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

2010-06-20 Thread Alex Schuster
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [10-06-20 15:16]: How about putting dev-python/setuptools into /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way. So I believe (=not knowing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Schuster
this mess things up? On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [snip ...] Mick wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: - Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a year ago showed one address book and many std.vcf (or similar

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Schuster
is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up? Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup. On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [snip ...] Mick wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: But: There are errors when

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I don't remember why I unmasked the unstable version of libpng. However, following your advice, I first attempted to reinstall kdm. This had been an update 6 days ago when all this started

Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Allan Gottlieb writes: The machine seems to have two hardware states determined by whether windows has been run since power on. I _think_ I read about such a problem ages ago, and there was a workaround. Either in the BIOS, or in Windows, some Wake-On-LAN option. If activated, Windows would

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot into X

2010-06-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Colleen Beamer writes: First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant - could be my stupidity, but I did try! Fine :) From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows: (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module

64 bits (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit)

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: J. Roeleveld writes: Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will have to do the migration to 64bit then. Wonko, If

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
. I'm doing this with every longer mail now. I saved the mail as draft, and went to my Linxu machine where I resumed the edit. I wanted to try something and went into the import menu: Crash! Good thing the Windows Clipboard still had it. Mick wrote: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Rod writes: Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

2010-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Michael Sullivan writes: 4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__ querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255 192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__00 4: carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille * querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3 name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new *I'm not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome fail

2010-06-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Jose Juan Montiel writes: yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian). Welcome! I follow all step of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or something similar) fail...

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote: You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could run badblock manually over the partition first to check. Thanks, Joost, but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs. It looks as if btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone? For the sake of simplicity, I just leave it alone. I'm guessing it won't hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card?

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo. I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... * AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support * NVIDIA

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel D Jones writes: eix gcc shows: Installed versions: 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp -altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened -libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla)

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Jake Moe writes: j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 Password: Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox Error: no display specified j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror konqueror: cannot connect to X server j...@jhb5970 ~ $ Try echo $DISPLAY, this

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: I am getting worried now about fs corruption. I would be, too. The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time But only if it was not shut down correctly. To force a complete fsck on reboot on a file system that looks sane, issue a 'touch /force_fsck'. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Johannes Kimmel writes: On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little more available? What is your output of free -m? [...] Probably your graphicscard

[gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the system in the meantime. But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB

Re: [gentoo-user] howto increase INODE

2010-05-26 Thread Alex Schuster
kitti jaisong writes: I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on device (28) when i check inode by df -i command [...] /dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr /dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var /dev/sda6 29G

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 , and I'd expect all to be fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Madhurya Kakati writes: Philip, Thanks for the detailed answer. Yeah, that was a nice one. On 5/25/2010 9:09 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 100525 Madhurya Kakati wrote: I am currently using Archlinux and Windows 7 and want to try out Gentoo. Welcome aboard ! -- Gentoo requires a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote: But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing happens when I try to print

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Roy Wright writes: Argh. Just have to vent a little. We feel with you :) So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check, openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the non-standard packages that includes their own version of support libraries. You guessed

[gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and HAL printing backend. And on the next screen, I have to enter the device URI by hand. How

Re: [gentoo-user] USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote: I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and HAL printing backend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB printer and new cups

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: On 05/15/2010 04:01 PM, Dale wrote: Just for reference, this is my USE flags: USE=X avahi dbus gnutls java jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff zeroconf -acl -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd Good grief, Dale, you're almost stark nekkid! Where are all

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