Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-11 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/11/20 7:59 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 11/10/20 05:42, Jonathan Yong wrote: Was it just the previous message? I canceled sending the message when I realized it wasn't signed. Google SMTP must have accepted it anyway. You can't cancel a message. Once it's left your inbox, it's gone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-10 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/10/20 7:53 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 03:47:42AM +, Jonathan Yong wrote: The notion that I am unable to fix a problem myself, on a system that I own, because of some technicality, even as a temporary measure is disconcerting. Controlling every piece of how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-09 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/9/20 9:27 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:26:17AM +, Jonathan Yong wrote: I'm open to fixing ebuild packages by myself in my own overlay, though I prefer not to due to eventual bit rot. Any hints on how to mask CPU USE flags based on multilib arch in the .ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-09 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/9/20 9:27 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:26:17AM +, Jonathan Yong wrote: I'm open to fixing ebuild packages by myself in my own overlay, though I prefer not to due to eventual bit rot. Any hints on how to mask CPU USE flags based on multilib arch in the .ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-09 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/9/20 5:44 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:26:17AM +, Jonathan Yong wrote I have a skylake system: CPU_FLAGS_X86: aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 A heavy-handed 2-part solution 1) remove "avx2&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-08 Thread Jonathan Yong
On 10/8/20 3:40 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:57:52AM +, Jonathan Yong wrote: I am getting AVX2 related compile errors in 32bit media-libs/opencv-4.4.0, there are some internet text mentioning not all AVX2 instructions are supported on 32bit x86. For now, I have set

[gentoo-user] Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-08 Thread Jonathan Yong
Hello, I am getting AVX2 related compile errors in 32bit media-libs/opencv-4.4.0, there are some internet text mentioning not all AVX2 instructions are supported on 32bit x86. For now, I have set -abi_x86_32 since I don't need it now. Any plans to support ABI specific USE masking/setting?

[gentoo-user] Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-08 Thread Jonathan Yong
Hello, I am getting AVX2 related compile errors in 32bit media-libs/opencv-4.4.0, there are some internet text mentioning not all AVX2 instructions are supported on 32bit x86. For now, I have set -abi_x86_32 since I don't need it now. Any plans to support ABI specific USE masking/setting?

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
your system for you to compile outside of portage. In short: | Downloaded | Installed --+--+- gentoo-sources| source code | source code gentoo-kernel | source code | built kernel gentoo-kernel-bin | built kernel | built kernel -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
see if it is > created with the correct content. > > The file is created/modified by app-eselect/eselect-opengl. If you have USE=libglvnd enabled, eselect-opengl is no longer installed, but the files it generated may remain. In this case, it is safe to remove the file if USE=libglvnd is

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] What was it....?

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
om/search?q=readline+wrapper+application > suggests rlwrap: > > https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-rlwrap/ > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-misc/rlwrap > Additionally, rlfe (readline front end) is included with sys-libs/readline[utils] and does about the same thing. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
nd IPs. Google hasn't helped either. > > Any ideas, anyone? > Generally, this would indicate a problem resolving DNS. This is normally caused by not having a correct /etc/resolv.conf inside the chroot (it generally will need to be the same as the file outside the chroot). Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE

2018-04-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
s you figured out, the correct action is to install the file in your real ${DISTDIR}, but the ebuild no longer has access to determine what the name of that directory should be. This probably should be reported as a bug. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: after masking the X11-update due to nvidia-incompatibilities I got this...

2018-03-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
; flag enabled 2) dev-qt/qtgui-5.9.4-r3 states that if the "accessibility" flag is enabled, then both the "dbus" and "xcb" flags must also be enabled on that package (and portage is saying that at least one of them is not currently enabled) Your fix would probab

[gentoo-user] Re: The uselessness of equery

2017-10-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
6.439s sys 0m0.160s $ time portageq owners / /usr/bin/portageq sys-apps/portage-2.3.11 /usr/bin/portageq real0m1.391s user0m1.348s sys 0m0.044s $ time qfile /usr/bin/qfile app-portage/portage-utils (/usr/bin/qfile) real0m0.104s user 0m0.085s sys 0m0.019s I

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?

2017-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
. > > You can read /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank to see if your > changes applied properly. > > Additionally, "setterm --blank force" turns the console off immediately. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2017-05-01 Thread Jonathan Callen
lt for gtk-cursor-theme-name (which causes the built-in cursors in the Xorg server to be used as the ultimate fallbacks). If you wish to set the default for all users, instead edit the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. Note that this only applies to GTK-2 applications, GTK-3 uses different configuration. -- Jonathan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild: package specific CFLAGS

2017-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
en call "append-flags -fgnu89-inline" in src_configure before the econf line. If you explicitly only want to set CFLAGS (and not CXXFLAGS), then call "append-cflags" (there is also a append-cppflags, append-cxxflags, append-ldflags, append-fflags). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
tically generated by eselect-opengl, which means it does need to be in /etc. It is used to tell Xorg which OpenGL libraries to use, so that it doesn't have to make a bunch of symlinks in /usr anymore. If you aren't using proprietary xorg drivers, then it doesn't actually change any settings. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

2017-03-31 Thread Jonathan Callen
filesystem (which you probably aren't), in which case there is a fsck.minix applet that can be compiled into busybox, but is not included by default. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

2017-03-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
anks a lot in advance for any help! Cheers Meino The fsck applet provided by busybox is just the fsck(8) driver, which calls the fsck.${FSTYPE} command to actually check the filesystem. You still need fsck.ext4/e2fsck from e2fsprogs to actually do the check. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: Borked network connections on KDE apps (ftp, fish)

2017-03-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
ev-libs/libev-4.23) > 1489518628: >>> unmerge success: dev-libs/libev-4.23 > 1489518628: *** exiting successfully. > 1489518629: *** terminating. > > On another box I did not notice this behaviour, but there are some > differences > between them in terms of applications installed. Both have the same portage > profile: > > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/plasma > > Is it a matter of waiting for a while for the new KDE apps to move into > stable, or should I be reinstalling some of the above packages? > Have you rebooted (or at least logged out of KDE) since you upgraded? Sometimes KDE has issues with network connections after an upgrade, as some parts are still running with the old code and other parts with the new, until you log out of your session. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

2017-03-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
quot;-n 1" to tell xargs to only use 1 argument from the input per command run (instead of as many as possible), like so: ifconfig | grep [^A-Za-z] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 ethtool -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

2017-02-01 Thread Jonathan Callen
tory is in kinfocenter and is >>> configured via /etc/xdg/kcm-about-distrorc. >> >> Nope. Regular install. > > And this is the launcher icon: > > http://i.imgur.com/UyGlgLK.png > > AFAIK, this is the Gentoo logo. > That appears to be upstream's new icon for that: https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.9/plasma-5.9.png -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: locale : cannot generate it

2017-01-11 Thread Jonathan Callen
and > POSIX). > > It is possible to create this on Gentoo (with some warnings) by creating a symlink /usr/share/i18n/locales/C that points to "POSIX", then adding "C.UTF-8" to locale.gen as normal. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: GTK+ circular dependency

2016-10-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
ncies. > > > This is bug 597068[1]. The issue appears to have been caused by a misunderstanding of when the package manager can and cannot solve circular dependencies, and the fix is likely to be to move gtk-engines-adwaita from RDEPEND to PDEPEND in gtk+:2, as gtk-engines-adwaita has a build-time DEPEND on gtk+:2 (not just a runtime RDEPEND). [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597068 -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother scanner wants libusb-0.1.so.4

2016-10-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
> > Thanks in advance. > > Bertram > To get libusb-0.1.so.4, you need to install dev-libs/libusb-compat (which uses the new libusb 1.0 to provide the old libusb 0.1 API). -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Being uypdated or not being updated ?

2016-07-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
he oracle has spoken to me ... > > > Hmmm > > > Best regards, > Meino > > > > You explicitly told emerge not to update nvidia-drivers ("--exclude x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers"), and emerge is doing exactly what you told it to -- not updating nvidia-drivers. If you were to remove the "--exclude" parts of your emerge command line, you might see different results. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: executing a command as a nologin user

2016-07-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 07/14/2016 05:19 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/13/2016 01:41 PM, wabe wrote: >> Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> On 07/13/2016 07:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/07/2016 03:47, jens w wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --resume says "invalid resume list".

2016-06-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
updated, newly installed, or rebuilt, when your normal @world update would show nothing, this may be part of the problem. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED]Re: [A bit off-topic] Bash alias and

2016-06-12 Thread Jonathan Callen
ty, I'm doing this to make my life easier. As much as I tell >> them to do something, write up documents that tell them what to do and >> reiterate what they have to do, I still get the question "It's broken, >> it won't do as I want" >> >> Andrew >> >> p.s. Nico's point was a typo on my part in the email. >> > > Simple answer to this which a single google search found. You CAN'T > pass parameters to an alias under Bash. You need to do a function. A > simple function of: > > npp() > { > npp $1 & > } > > was all I needed. > > Andrew > > A better function for the same (that also doesn't loop forever because the function might be calling itself): npp() { command npp "$@" & } This allows any number of arguments to be passed, instead of "exactly one" and allows filenames containing spaces, etc. to be passed correctly. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Change from udev to eudev?

2016-06-09 Thread Jonathan Callen
notify other applications of changes, somehow (but I'm not sure that it actually does that). If you don't actually need any of that (you are working on an embedded system where you only need root anyway, for instance), then you can just use a bare devtmpfs without a device manager changing permissions, adding links, etc. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Attic files (app-admin/rackview) removed?

2016-06-07 Thread Jonathan Callen
iew, or read the output of `cvs log`). You can then do `cvs up -r1.X file`, replacing "1.X" with the CVS revision and "file" with the filename in question. Note that CVS tracked every file separately, so the revisions will differ between files. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/23/2016 11:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: >> On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Forwarded Message >>>> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot >>>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
is to remove the line that is exactly "-- " (dash-dash-space) and everything following it -- or to ensure that that line is quoted somehow. Most text email clients treat that string as a signature indicator, and assume that everything following it isn't very important, just boilerplate. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/16/2016 12:34 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> [16-05-16 14:09]: >> On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Looking further

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/13/2016 06:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-11, Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Looking further at the ebuilds in question, it appears that if you wish >> to have older versions of GCC installed with >=gcc-4.9, you need to have >

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 05/10/2016 10:59 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Jonathan Callen: > >> I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although >> I know it didn't always do so. > > I was bitten by that problem today. First I masked gcc-4.9 so I was able > to do an emerge @

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
to be). I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although I know it didn't always do so. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is CONFIG_MICROCODE gone in kernel 4.4.6-gentoo?

2016-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
some of those features on some CPUs (because they are completely broken anyway). This means that loading the microcode before any userspace programs run will ensure that applications like /sbin/init won't crash just because a feature they thought they could use suddenly disappeared. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge

2016-04-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
SLOT; this meant that portage would not remove an older version of a package just because you installed a newer version. At that time, portage did not have any collision-protect mechanism (or so it appears). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCg

[gentoo-user] Re: blank (black) screen on kde 5

2016-04-15 Thread Jonathan Callen
en you > need to add sddm to the video group. > Note that your own user account must *also* be in the video group if you are using the NVIDIA driver (and any other account used to run applications that link against libGL.so.1). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 i

[gentoo-user] Re: Has my PC been compromised?

2016-04-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
d "pulse-shm-*" are created by pulseaudio for its own internal use; applications that may play sounds through pulseaudio will create those files automatically. The PostgreSQL.* file is likely also a false positive, but I do not have postgres installed

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-14 Thread Jonathan Callen
up needed? What does it do? > The sddm user only needs to be in the video group if using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, as it controls access to some low-level device nodes created by that driver for the use of the NVIDIA driver's userspace component. It may be possible to use those device

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

2016-04-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
gfixes each month that there isn't a new version. Overall, there are plenty of updates coming. -- Jonathan Callen signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

2016-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
just fine. sorry for being a bit brain-dead this > am... > > > thx, James > For future reference, this would be a bit more efficient: grep -r -l --include="*.ebuild" "EAPI=6" . This way, grep only looks at the files you want to search anyway. - -- Jonathan Callen -

[gentoo-user] Re: Confessional: how I generally use emerge.

2016-03-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
et itself is declared to be exactly the three sets "@profile @selected @system" -- @system is the usual system set, @selected is the contents of the "world" and "world_sets" files, and @profile is certain packages that used to be defined as required in profiles without being

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE's confusing versions

2016-03-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
ything being "15.12" for the December release, or "15.08" for the October release). Note that upstream split the old "KDE Software Compilation" (formerly "KDE Desktop Environment") into three separate parts: KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and KDE Applications. -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

2016-03-03 Thread Jonathan Callen
affected? Are <> relationships betwen version numbers within the > 0.9.8z_pNNN seriels not transitive? > The "revision >=" operator in GLSAs indicates "any -r# revision of the version greater than or equal to the indicated revision", so this is saying

[gentoo-user] Re: QEMU/distcc combination question64-

2016-01-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
ost that the packages will be used on, because slightly different versions would otherwise cause problems. So your problem with "arch-specific headers and libraries" *always* causes that part to run on the netbook, even if the remote distcc server is exactly the same arch, etc. - --

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

2015-12-18 Thread Jonathan Callen
favor of dev-python/python-systemd), but dev-python/python-systemd is not yet stable. Therefore, portage is keeping the older version of systemd installed, as that is the only way it could find to keep all deps satisfied. If you want to keep fail2ban, the easiest method may be to keyword

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What package provides gstreamer-app?

2015-12-11 Thread Jonathan Callen
ch slotted (well, the ancient 0.8 release is gone from the tree as nothing uses it any more) specifically so that they can be installed in parallel, and upstream actually supports doing so (which is why the ABI version number is in the name of every library, plugin directory, and executable)

[gentoo-user] Re: Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread Jonathan Callen
uires X11 packages if USE=X is enabled (adding deps on x11-apps/mkfontdir and media-fonts/encodings) or USE=pcf is enabled (adding a dep on x11-apps/bdftopcf). All these deps are compile-time only. USE=pcf installs the fonts used in X11, USE=psf installs the fonts used on the console. - -

[gentoo-user] Re: Weird "df" output

2015-11-25 Thread Jonathan Callen
terminated with...) 7: the exact string "-" 8: filesystem type 9: filesystem device name (or string passed to mount(2) for virtual filesystems) 10: per-device options (always the same for multiple mounts of same device) (any number of optional per-device flags may follow) Note that

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Jonathan Callen
rs I stopped > wondering which package installs it, but it's not part of any app > that lets me print things. I think it's part of the > gnome/mate/xfce/lxde family of desktops because I use all of those > and the printer widget is always the same. Must be a gtk thing > because

[gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
). James Until Sven updates his code to not use GuideXML, I have linked to his snapshots in my own devspace, under http://dev.gentoo.org/~jcallen/snapshots/. The snapshots go back to 2008-01-20, and are current to 2015-07-20. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

[gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?

2015-07-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
devices under /dev, including all sound devices, certain input devices, any CD/DVD/BR devices you may have, and certain video devices. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVrvMEAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgJi8QALktjDzO32+5G349HzOPE/nw aJ2wM8wue8/x2VdIK0q9d

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

2015-07-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
simpler. The Gummiboot project is no longer maintained, it has been merged into systemd as systemd-boot (note that using any other part of Systemd should *not* be required to use systemd-boot, but I don't know for sure because I do not have any non-systemd systems). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN

[gentoo-user] Re: Profile listings

2015-06-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
be listed in profiles.desc. Most profiles do not change much, if anything, in the @system set. The @system set contains much more than you would probably need for a dedicated, embedded device. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I block incomming tor-traffic?

2015-06-06 Thread Jonathan Moseley
You have to configure it to block all tor proxies. I don't own any servers but that seems like the most logical thing to do. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015, 09:12 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 6 June 2015, at 12:04 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: … (ip-lookup of source

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Jonathan Callen
) supports. If you set USE=x264 on gst-plugins-meta, you will get H.264 support via libx264 as well. One of those options should get you support for viewing H.264 videos on Firefox. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVPZYGAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mg0msP

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVDtluAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgracQAJ6roGcBYpbaAjOQ4k3aStRM zYrv2Augc6JignSm0vZeTcz4h1P5t+WgOmXaKBG7ak6NMz7fIRFW6wpTdKU7uGAl mM6oYhM4jKapFrmmkgpn3UfHWx6BjdHuWSuifvPP9WNLdppKiWqHXEE1VTcb4aDk yU3Eu

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
util-linux installed with USE=tty-helpers, and you didn't tell portage it was allowed to set that flag, so it doesn't know what you want to do about the issue. The easiest solution is probably to add sys-apps/util-linux tty-helpers to your /etc/portage/package.use. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN

[gentoo-user] Re: Manipulating ext2 image without root access.

2015-02-09 Thread Jonathan Callen
be done with mtools, is there anything like it of ext? It is possible to do this with debugfs(8), although you probably want to run e2fsck(8) on the filesystem after modifying it via debugfs. Keeping a backup copy of the image might not be a bad idea as well. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] dependancy xorg-server

2015-02-07 Thread Jonathan Callen
=info warn error log Maybe I should skip: info and log; to have less trafic. The default is log warn error; info is normally used to describe what is going on in the middle of a build; the log/warn/error levels may be used to inform the user of actions required after a build. - -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-29 Thread Jonathan Callen
you do that, everything should pretty much Just Work. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUyt+NAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mgolYP/1g9YlZ/IYaLlKNFOMiEKaIa KrsF+ne2vmITUXtLsVtwCDZNIQyHj6c/Ma7zHpm9Kbzn2OxpKt8dduDNdpA8QLwx E3TM3pV0AfCYRDazH6pZmHRpDc7gVTtz4yQA

[gentoo-user] Re: Working thru fresh install Gentoo as vbox guest

2014-12-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
support (as well as the older AT keyboard, which used the same protocol, but a differently shaped connector), which I believe is what VBox emulates (as just about everything supports having a PS/2 keyboard). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

2014-11-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
with GCC 3.4 and later). So you were close, but the major change happened with 3.4, not 3.3 ;). Some old binary software still requires libstdc++.so.5, which can still be installed from sys-libs/libstdc++-v3, which actually builds part of GCC 3.3.6 to get the libstdc++.so.5 to install. - -- Jonathan

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo mirror list - where?

2014-08-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/12/2014 04:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut The default list of all mirrors for the

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency conflict. openjpeg ffmpeg

2014-06-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/15/2014 04:47 AM, Dale wrote: John Campbell wrote: On 06/14/2014 10:10 PM, Dale wrote: Well, I have 16Gbs here. I'm not lacking for memory. If memory prices were to drop a bit, I could upgrade some more. I'd have to swap out what I

[gentoo-user] Re: How to extend the tmux status 'title' for each pane or window

2014-06-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/07/2014 06:33 AM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 15:16:56 Stroller wrote: On Tue, 3 June 2014, at 6:59 am, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: … I have: … status-left #[fg=blue]#T … status-right #[fg=blue][#S] … Thanks

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
. If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown it will reset the BIOS time to local time. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: howto get systemd to use localtime (I think)

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
. If you use Windows 8, in addition to the above, you have to disable Windows from ever writing the time to the BIOS clock, otherwise on shutdown it will reset the BIOS time to local time. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
(such as the vbox-* modules from VirtualBox), in which case you *would* need to explicitly load them. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
the module itself. - -- Jonathan Callen 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTeAdJAAoJELHSF2kinlg42aAP

[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
on the largest drive in addition to being split among the other drives). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTaZt/AAoJELHSF2kinlg4geoP/Rz1Kn4Bu0c/hXr5kuPkP/wo

[gentoo-user] Re: libdvdnav is blocking libdvdread

2014-04-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
by the fact that Portage lets you continue. The time you have to deal with an issue is if you get [blocks B] (note the capital 'B'), which means Portage *couldn't* fix the issue for you. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

[gentoo-user] Re: Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
/mountinfo if it detects that the final target of /etc/mtab (possibly /proc/self/mounts) is not writable. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTVzHvAAoJELHSF2kinlg41ssP

[gentoo-user] Re: Allow delay for booting from USB device?

2014-04-19 Thread Jonathan Callen
simply waits until the root device is available, no matter how long that takes. (So you don't end up waiting longer than required just in case). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
when my first partition started 2048 sectors (1MiB) into the disk). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTSqhYAAoJELHSF2kinlg4tnEQAJWEWwHhylqn3yrPfdtung3Z

[gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/30/2014 04:04 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:14:28 +0200 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at: Thanks a lot, very helpful. I followed your suggestions and run gnome now successfully with both the latest (stable)

[gentoo-user] Re: World update and dev-lang/python-exec weirdness...

2014-03-08 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/08/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [140308 09:46]: If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among a few other

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple package instances ..... Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Jonathan Callen
it would break those other packages. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTCmzBAAoJELHSF2kinlg4uJ4P/3bRC7UMRGWDrCFEYrlcKWAQ

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there any way out of this...?

2013-12-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
-down systemd install that doesn't include systemd itself), but it is unsupported. most of the other errors will probably go away when that one is fixed. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

[gentoo-user] Re: Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

2013-12-06 Thread Jonathan Callen
to switch to systemd as your udev provider without using the rest of systemd. - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSosOZAAoJELHSF2kinlg4+bkP/1xjvhDe+/8Dn7lqd9YnsUXY

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
- -Apreserve ACLs (implies -p) - -Xpreserve extended attributes - -xdon't cross filesystem boundaries - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and LUKS

2013-09-05 Thread Jonathan Callen
/kdm.service, and remove the line: Conflicts=getty@tty1.service - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJSKW2FAAoJELHSF2kinlg4f/YP+wZMh4CDv60ca3v8FA6UySnE UQ/HEcQFa5MIhwwF2PNzG1

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

2013-08-18 Thread Jonathan Callen
- From $PORTDIR/profiles/base/package.use.mask: # GNOME gn...@gentoo.org (02 Oct 2012) # Mask USE=udisks and use USE=gdu as the default for gnome-base/gvfs-1.14; # older gvfs releases have problems with recent stable udisks:2 (bug #463792) gnome-base/gvfs-1.14 udisks - -- Jonathan Callen

[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade renames eth-interfaces

2013-03-16 Thread Jonathan Callen
). - -- Jonathan Callen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJRRHYFAAoJELHSF2kinlg4d0MQAJhJs73Nlja+TGoq77TaYMOz vrJmZmPDewp+1imFjfnddhC6c5ePn5+XCQ7vWmcB3LVVh8JAOqRq1pEV/u4F3HYO 8VE5VI/s0K2MO

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. The offlinehelp flag is now in the libreoffice-l10n ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-26 Thread Jonathan
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:53:32 +1000 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Make an entry in your grub.conf with gentoo=nox, so you can boot to command line. here's what mine looks like What a reboot to fix Xorg keyboard drivers? Thats not the Linux way. Press at the same time Ctrl + Alt +

Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard no mouse

2011-06-26 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:34:30 +0200 (CEST) Alain DIDIERJEAN alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Citing Alan Mackenzies: It's a strange, depressing feeling when the only input device which works is the reset button - thank goodness that isn't handled by evdev. ;-) Please use the mark for quotes

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I eject an audio CD inside Gnome?

2011-05-30 Thread Jonathan
On Sun, 29 May 2011 20:49:05 + Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is clearly suboptimal. Try checking to see if any program has a file open in the cd. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Jonathan
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread has 500 messages. Nothing to filter. emails too. But you

[gentoo-user] Making emerge-delta-webrsync more useful

2010-08-05 Thread Jonathan
Am I right in thinking that the Gentoo Rsync mirrors are using more bandwidth then they could, because of the CPU load on the servers and the fact that there are less Rsync mirrors then distfiles mirrors? Emerge-delta-webrsync downloads its patch from the distfiles mirrors which can make it up

[gentoo-user] Gnome is missing the hibernate button in the shutdown dialog box.

2010-07-15 Thread Jonathan
I'm running TuxOnIce kernel version 2.6.34-r1 with gnome 2.28.2. I can hibernate using pm-hibernate as root but I do not have a hibernate button in the shutdown dialog box but it does have suspend button which works. Here is some info based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager.

Re: [gentoo-user] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:59:08 +0200 Fabian Köster koesterre...@gmx.net wrote: Hi *, I am currently trying to use Phonon and PulseAudio and have the following problem: When I play some Video with a Non-KDE application like VLC everything is perfectly directed to the local PulseAudio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
Sorry, but I believe the you are the one being pretentious; how long has been since you tried PulseAudio? It has come a lng way, and I haven't seen any real flames against PulseAudio in many months (and it's enabled in all major distributions). And that is because it's working (I repeat my

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome login panel how to disable restart and shutdown buttons

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathan
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:06:53 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Using gdm when I am at the login screen there are two buttons -- restart and shutdown and if you push one by accident it does the action without asking for any kind of password or any authentication at all -- how do I fix this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT: Sync freq of LCDpanel != framerate of movie ?!?

2010-04-24 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:52:08 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I uses Option TwinView 0 under screen section and Option DynamicTwinView FALSE under device or xrandr gives the wrong refresh rate. I do not know if this will help you. Oh! Yes! the other meaning of

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