[gentoo-user] Re: nscd not caching hostnames

On 2017-06-16 15:14, Adam Carter wrote: > But i see from packet captures that a new request is sent to the dns > server each time, and nscd -i hosts is always empty. stracing nscd > shows that its not processing anything. How do i get it to intercept > the name requests? FWIW, im running

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-15 07:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Android and iphones can be accessed as a USB drive. Doesn't this > > work? > > No they can't, at least not the modern Android phones. allowing two > systems to mount the same filesystem is a recipe for disaster. That's > why we have MTP, which would

[gentoo-user] bugzilla down?

~$ curl -L https://bugs.gentoo.org 2>/dev/null | lynx -dump -stdin Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator at webmas...@gentoo.org to

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1029959 Pretty sad, most manuals I've seen have a troubleshooting section On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 10:22 AM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 10:19:31 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > I'll know in few days, but I suspect you are

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

Read the mother board manual, should tell you what the beeps are and how to troubleshoot them On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 8:18 AM wrote: > My 2-months old system is giving me 1-long 3-short beeps. > No, video display. > I've swapped the video cards, it is not it. > > Is it a

[gentoo-user] network interface names in gentoo

Without tweaking anything in particular (as far as I remember), I get the "predictable" names. For example, on the desktop box where I'm writing this, the main interface is enp3s0. But, of course, there's no systemd on this box, and never has been. So, reading [1], I am somewhat puzzled: that

[gentoo-user] Re: Peculiar problem with root login

On 2017-06-11 14:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host I'll go easy on the OT this time :-) > Jun 11 14:50:55 d2 sshd[2830]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication > failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=d.local.lan > user=root > > Jun

[gentoo-user] Re: local file containing a web site

On 2017-06-10 16:43, Dale wrote: > > I would like to produce a file containing what is seen when viewing > > that web page (it brings in other pages). A pdf would be good, but > > others would be OK. > > > > The goal is to be able to put this on a flash drive and be able to > > view in without

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is PS1 (the console prompt) different for the root user?

On 2017-06-10 09:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I noticed that the root prompt does not include the full path of the > current directory. > ... > So for users, I can see where I am ("/usr/bin"). For root, I cannot. It > just says "bin". > ... > Is there a rationale for this? One guess:

[gentoo-user] Puzzled by zswap [Was: tmp on tmpfs]

On 2017-05-24 19:05, Kai Krakow wrote: > To get in line with Rich Freeman: I didn't want to imply that zswap > only works with swap, neither that tmpfs only works with swap. Both > work without. But if you want to put some serious amount of data into > tmpfs, you need swap as a backing device

[gentoo-user] Re: tmp on tmpfs

On 2017-05-24 08:00, Kai Krakow wrote: > While I have no benchmarks and use the systemd default of tmpfs for > /tmp, I also put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs, automounted through > systemd so it is cleaned up when no longer used (by unmounting). > > What can I say? It works so much faster: Building

[gentoo-user] tmp on tmpfs

So what are gentoo users' opinions on this matter of faith? I have long been in the camp that thinks tmpfs for /tmp has no advantages (and may have disadvantages) over a normal filesystem like ext3, because the files there are normally so small that they will stay in the page cache 100% of the

[gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

On 2017-05-23 23:16, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > KDE doesn’t find my beloved terminus font anymore, both on my PC and > my laptop. It does not show up in any font selection dialog. The same > goes for GTK applications such as gimp (GTK2) and firefox (GTK3). No > Terminus anywhere. > > Does that

[gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

On 2017-05-20 16:36, Mick wrote: > It seems revdep-rebuild'ing against library='libQtCore.so.4' also > rebuilds the newly installed Qt packages. This is why there so many > packages to rebuild. For me it was just 20 packages, I have no KDE. That was much fewer that Kai's suggestion would have

[gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?

On 2017-05-21 10:01, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-05-21 17:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > cryptsetup seems to be of another flavor than encfs, since its depends > > on gpg (see below), which encfs does not use as far as I know. > > I think encfs uses symmetric cip

[gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?

On 2017-05-21 17:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > cryptsetup seems to be of another flavor than encfs, since its depends > on gpg (see below), which encfs does not use as far as I know. > I think encfs uses symmetric ciphers and cryptsetup uses a pub/private > key pair. But I am by no means a

[gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?

On 2017-05-21 09:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Why are you using encfs with the associated FUSE baggage when ecryptfs > is in the kernel and performs the same function? Is ecryptfs behind the scenes when I run /sbin/cryptsetup ? I remember a few years back, still on debian, I resolved to replace

[gentoo-user] gentoo rocks

It's about one year now since I locked myself in my room for a month and installed gentoo :-) It has been an interesting and sometimes rough ride, but I learned many thing along the way, and I got what I wanted: a desktop GNU/Linux that just does the things I want it to, without stupid frills.

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache config

On 2017-05-18 15:49, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The apache2 access log shows the files of the page being fetched, but > makes no mention of /include/hmenu.incl, nor of includes at all. Don't you need to load a special module for server-side includes? -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 2017-05-16 09:11, Corbin Bird wrote: > > http://bogdan.org.ua/2009/09/30/iommu-this-costs-you-64-mb-of-ram.html > > That link, read the rest of it. > > It says to leave it alone, let the kernel use it as an IOMMU. > > On AMD, with NO IOMMU kernel parameters, output in '/var/log/dmesg': >

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 2017-05-15 14:33, Corbin Bird wrote: > Gigabyte has long been known to ship 'broken for Linux' e820 firmware. > 'e820' is basically the APG Aperature setup in the firmware. > Gigabyte kills OR overrides the IOMMU support in the firmware, to setup > the AGP Aperature. > > Closed source /

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with AMD_IOMMU

On 2017-05-14 20:07, Corbin Bird wrote: > Background / System Info : 2 systems. > Chipset 990FX, FX-9590 ( -march=bdver2 / Fam15h ) > Chipset 790FX, PhenomII 980 ( -march=amdfam10 / Fam10h ) > Gentoo x86_64, multilib, Kernel 4.9.x > IOMMU enabled in UEFI, BIOS. > General Info : ( if you don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Risks of making traceroute suid root

On 2017-05-11 11:15, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 2. sudo, which frankly is a monumental PITA to maintain - it tends to > grow and bloat and the syntax isn't easy to parse in your mind. It > also doesn't let you give users access to a certain thing, If the thing is an object in the filesystem, old

[gentoo-user] gkrellm sensors vanish

Since about 2 weekly updates ago (which seems to neatly translate to a newly stable 2.3.10-r1 version of gkrellm) sometimes it starts without any of the hardware monitoring sensors displayed. Not always; but since gkrellm despite of all its other virtues is the misguided sort of program that

[gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: > It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob > & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item > (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). > So can anyone advise me how to get my new scanner working on

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+-2.x, adwaita, gsettings and all that

On 2017-05-02 00:32, Jonathan Callen wrote: > To set the GTK-2 theme, edit the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0, and add lines > like: > > gtk-theme-name = "Raleigh" > gtk-icon-theme-name = "hicolor" > gtk-cursor-theme-name = "" This worked, thanks. Some icons _are_ different but I suppose that's

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

On 2017-05-02 09:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> miles per hour, internet almost always won lately. :-) > But tapes also hold a lot more than they did in 1981 And so do trucks :-( -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't

[gentoo-user] gtk+-2.x, adwaita, gsettings and all that

I remember there was a thread about these topics, but I think it was only in the context of resolving build conflicts. That is not my problem: I can build and merge these packages just fine. My problem is that the adwaita theme, on which the last stable gtk+2 depends, gives a totally new look to

[gentoo-user] freetype-2.7 USE flags

I understand that freetype-2.7 enabled by default the code that emulates the so called ClearType technique on Windows (a.k.a. blurry fonts). In older versions that code was turned on with the "infinality" USE flag. "infinality" is still there but now there is also a new "cleartype_hinting" flag.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pseudo first impressions

On 2017-04-30 02:23, lee wrote: > > Do a --depclean and that will resolve itself. > > Last time I tried that, it wanted to remove the source of the kernel > I'm using, along with other things. It would have made sense if I had > upgraded the kernel, too, but I didn't have the time to do that

[gentoo-user] ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

I'm trying to create an ebuild of a crufty old program that needs -fgnu89-inline in compiler flags to have any chance of building. What's the way to do that in an ebuild? I could have something like src_configure() { econf $(use_enable nls) CFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline } but then, will this not

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl, > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits, > you can't enable them all globally because some packages support more > than one that you have to choose at

[gentoo-user] Re: How do you manage manually compiled software?

On 2017-04-28 09:33, Danny YUE wrote: > I am compiling RISC-V tools...I am just curious how do you manage your > manually compiled software? Michael already posted the "correct answer", and that's what I'm slowly migrating towards, myself. But the best way I've found before that was install it

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

Try rebooting, worst thing you'll have to do if it doesn't want to reboot is boot a rescue image and mount it to repair it On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 10:22 AM wabe wrote: > Hi folks, > > it seems that my system is broken after recompiling everything with > the new gcc5. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Gentoo infrastructure on MacOS

Look up Gentoo prefix On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 3:29 PM Viktar Patotski wrote: > Hi List, > > I know that it's possible to install Gentoo as a dual boot on a Mac Book. > However I do like MacOs interface and it's power saving features. So, I > have a question: Is there any way

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - PDF support is disabled since poppler-glib library version 0.33.0 or newer not found

Searching with eix or Google is a good way to find things https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/poppler On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 8:54 PM wrote: > I'm trying to emerge evince-3.20.1 > but I'm getting an error: > > configure: error: "PDF support is disabled since

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

You were rsyncing from root locally to user Thelma remotely thelma@10.10.0.2 ^^^ On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 9:38 PM wrote: > On 03/21/2017 10:07 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I'm trying to rsync (as root) files and I'm gettng an error > > rsync: mkstemp failed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

Syslinux family has been my go to boot loader On Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:12 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote: > > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first > > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012...

[gentoo-user] capabilities

On a detour from the setuid X problem, I wanted to play with Linux capabilities. But the simplest possible example from libcap README fails: root@matica ~ # getcap /bin/ping Failed to get capabilities of file `/bin/ping' (Operation not supported) root@matica ~ # Any idea what could be wrong?

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Printer

On 2016-12-08 22:02, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > I have a Brother MFC 7420. Yet, it's not connected to my > Gentoo but to a FreeBSD box. There, I completely ignored the > recommended drivers. I configured lpd (/etc/printcap) to > first pipe the PostScript/PDF documents through a > Ghostscript

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

You could try running a 32bit chroot. This is how I deal with steam https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, 02:21 siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:46 -0800 > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > I am pretty sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Other thing to keep in mind is if you recently installed/updated virtbox is to reboot your host to make sure the host drivers have installed correctly, and make sure your kernel for the guest have the correct modules built. On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, 12:10 Harry Putnam wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] split-elog setting

FEATURES="split-elog" in make.conf On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 22:49 Harry Putnam wrote: > On gentoo `Portage log wiki' pages one is told: > > "In order to create per-category elog files, enable the split-elog > Portage feature." > > (If you want to create `category-based'

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

Nice On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 17:58 João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-08-26 21:10 GMT-03:00 Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com>: > >> Have you emerge -avc lately? >> > Yep. No packages selected for removal by depclean. > > Filelight helped a lot. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

Have you emerge -avc lately? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos wrote: > Hi list, > > First of all, sorry for the English. Second, > > I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single installation, > unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Holy Quran in all languages Available

Meh, OP's the one posting this in a distro discussion mailing list On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 19:18 Deven Lahoti wrote: > make America great again amirite? is this the level of shitpost we're > falling to? > > On Jul 26, 2016 22:13, "James" wrote: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Holy Quran in all languages Available

You can't convert us from the church of Gentoo On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 16:48 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Landis Blackwell > wrote: > > y u no snackbar? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War > > dw, had a snickers and

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-creator (and others) too slow

Are you running any special kernel configuration like the CK patches? On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:42 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:40:18AM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Thanks Alec. > > > > No unstable KDE nor Qt. > > > > From the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

check either with alsamixer and make sure the headphone jack isn't muted, or look into pulseaudio if you're using that, although I can't help much there as I don't use pulse. On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:25 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > Hardware: Dell Latitude E7450 laptop > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

Why is this guy crying about being funemployed? On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, 18:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes: >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl

Try perl-cleaner, read the man page to see all the options. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 12:28 lee wrote: > > Hi, > > how do you do an update despite perl blocking it? > > > emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world > [...] > dev-lang/perl:0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

Usually what I'll do is ctrl-z which pauses emerge, and then I'll run pm-suspend to put the machine to sleep. After I turn it back on again I'll issue fg and emerge will resume. The --resume flag just attempts to continue a failed emerge list. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 11:02 Hogren

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

I've always thought it was something like data/disk duplication On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 22:46 wrote: > Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific > > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

xactly that kind of > partitioning/formatting later with that or other tools: > Which tools do I need and how to use them? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > Meino > > > > Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> [16-03-29 18:12]: > > If you're gonna

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be sure you get everything you can just dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick Replacing old/newstick with the correct device. You can even keep a backup image with dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

Did you do a emerge @module-rebuild after updating your kernel? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > > 160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument > > > when

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS suddenly not mounting

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS Make sure everything is set accordingly On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 12:54 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I did an "emerge -NuD world" last night and when completed, shut > the > machine down. Upon booting today, localmount can't mount ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X On Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 09:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:15:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Try an Abacus. They work as designed. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

Did you update your kernel in the process as well? On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 07:53 Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard > does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying > because when I have xdm in rc-update, X

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-browser will not start

What arch? On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:36 PM allan gottlieb wrote: > Just now chromium will not start > > gottlieb@E7450 /local/allan/gottlieb $ chromium-browser > [1318:1338:0128/133753:ERROR:nss_util.cc(839)] After loading Root > Certs, loaded==false: NSS error

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe flash warning and tree

You can install pepperflash to chromium although it's proprietary. Google Chrome has pepper flash by default On Sun, Jan 10, 2016, 10:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2016 12:25:41 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > Adobe Flash remains a bitter reality on mlb.com,

Re: [gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

It's telling you to add -xattr to FEATURES in your make.conf to get around the issue. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 20:03 wrote: > I'm upgrading one of my boxes (last one) and get an error message on the > following packages. > > grub-0.97-r16 > python-2.7.10-r1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 16:04 wrote: > Any ideas? The error message is... > > sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem > sdl: Reason: No available audio device > audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually removing packages from world problem

Check your /var/lib/world file to see if there are any packages or sets that mught be pulling it. Also check make.conf global USE and package.use On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 17:24 João Matos wrote: > Dear list, > > I was having problem with plasma, so I decided to change it. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

ed and not just alsa alone. On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 22:26 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > > > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? > > > > I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

Is it a seagate? On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very > basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just have to be "persuasive"... On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV > > to sda etc each time) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand. I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for their failure rate. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:41 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've had more Seagates die over t

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors

What text editor are you using? On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 22:14 wrote: > I have a hard time reading text in terminal when editing *.tex files. > My background is black but the dark blue/violet text it is very hard to > see on a black background. > > Recently Gentoo changed

[gentoo-user] MX Master mouse on bluetooth

you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to work properly. -everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird thumb button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing and connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth. Thanks in advance! -- Ian Savoy LoTeK

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-libs/efreet-9999 revision 57773 fails to emerge

On 15/03/11 19:15, Mick wrote: I'm trying to emerge the latest dev-libs/efreet-, but it fails as shown below: = Emerging (1 of 2) dev-libs/efreet- from enlightenment * Package:dev-libs/efreet- * Repository: enlightenment *

Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

On 26/02/11 16:41, Mick wrote: Where are being these set? I currently have: $ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /etc/xdg $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/local/share:/usr/share I'm asking because although Enlightenment-17 picks up the kde menu from there, it does not seem to recognise the respective

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

ls -l /fixit/dev/{console,null} crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 10. Jun 2010 /mnt/dev/console crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 10. Jun 2010 /mnt/dev/null Eh? You list /fixit/dev and get files in /mnt/dev, did you symlink /fixit to /mnt? I would have expected ls -l /fixit/dev/{console,null}

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

On 01/09/10 11:21, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, 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

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

On 01/09/10 13:57, Arnau Bria wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:03 +0100 Ian Lee wrote: Hi Ian, Try replacing the DEPEND= line with DEPEND=server? ( || ( =dev-ruby/stomp-1.1=dev-ruby/stomp-1.1.6 ) ) fails on manifest: # ebuild mcollective-0.4.8.ebuild manifest Error(s) in metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:16:49 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: mount: /dev/vg/tmp already mounted on /tmp mount: tmpfs already mounted on /tmp It's nothing to do with your problem, but why are you mounting two filesystems on /tmp? Couldn't find device with uuid

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb will not work on my dell d820 laptop?

. According to you kernel config, uvesafb is not built in to the kernel, but as a module. Try building it in to the kernel and not as a module. Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:57:18 + Ian Lee i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk wrote: but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing?? You can try putting XTerm*background: #001800 XTerm*foreground: #A8A8A8 to ~/.Xresources WFM Thanks that worked. I

[gentoo-user] Change colours of xterm

XFILESEARCHPATH = /etc/X11/%T/%N:/usr/share/X11/%T/%N but still no white on black xterm, what am I missing?? thanks Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206518 Ian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

Dale wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Ian Lee i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk writes: Ian Lee wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:04:23 -0600, Dale wrote: Probably hotplug, add !net.eth0 to rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf That's in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

Harry Putnam wrote: I don't have an entry for net.eth1 in rc-update show I don't have any mention of eth1 in /etc/conf.d/net (only eth0) Nonetheless something continues to try to start net.eth1 during boot. What else controls that? If its not in rc-update or /etc/conf.d/net it shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. Dezember 2008 12:50:41 schrieb Ian Lee: 2) Openrc problem I'm asuming here the openrc problems are from a recent upgrade you have done and not inslalled the the runlevels required sadly they are not done automatically. Have a look in /usr/share/openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is starting net.eth1 [not in rc-update]

Harry Putnam wrote: Ian Lee i...@leehouse.eclipse.co.uk writes: 1) net.eth1 problem There is a udev hook for starting net.* init scripts, /lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules to be precise The script is very brief There is no mention of net.eth1 in that script SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add

Re: [gentoo-user] Should /boot be mounted to upgrade grub?

. If you're upgrading grub through the emerge process, then /boot will be mounted for you, IIRC. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmx.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

hundred lines similar to the following are spewed to the console: [...] BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at the console works okay as well. What's the output of emerge -vp nano? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B displays running at 1600x1200. Did you rebuild the nvidia-drivers module? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error

. Only CDs are not. Tips, comments highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. W. Canis What does /etc/fstab look like? If you're using hald to auto-mount, the cdrom should *not* be in /etc/fstab. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation cd for P1 P2

On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 3:07pm -, James wrote: Ian Hilt ian.hilt at gmail.com writes: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2 So you are saying (implying) that i586 and k6 machines can use the 2008.0.beta2 minimum CD for installation? What about all of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

parochial.c -o parochial $ ./parochial $ narrowly restricted in outlook or scope Ah, got it. -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 11:33pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-05-09, Ian Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2008 at 1:34pm -, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm running nvidia-drivers 169.09-r1 with a NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 290 (G86GL), connected via DVI to dual Samsung 204B displays

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23-gentoo-r7 causes blinking X display

at 1600x1200. There's nothing in the system or X logs that conicides with the blinking. What's the output of dmesg while this is happening? -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 P2

/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2 -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

) -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is elog documentation

On Tue, 6 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I learn how to use elog? This may help get you started. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=1 /etc/make.conf.example has some nice ... examples. -- Ian Graeme Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key

Re: [gentoo-user] grub weirdness

) but used the wrong setup and root commands. /quote -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3

Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the j option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2

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