[gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/08/13 06:03, Harry Putnam wrote: No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be installed. Try disabling all flags and see where that

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers segfault when starting X

2013-08-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/08/13 23:02, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there, When I start X (or start kdm), I get a segmentation fault and no X. [...] Kernel 3.8.18, nvidia-drivers 304.88 (Last to support the GeForce7600, newer drivers do not support it any more). Any ideas? Try manually rolling your own ebuild

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

2013-07-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/07/13 18:26, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-31 11:20 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: If you don't use the systemd USE flag (and never install anything that depends on systemd), you will not get systemd installed, but many packages will install systemd unit files in

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/13 11:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Basically, systemd is now a first class citizen in Gentoo (on par with OpenRC) This is great. Thanks to everyone involved! Does someone know whether a KDE system can work reliably with systemd, or there still issues?

[gentoo-user] Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally, I have to manually quickpkg every one of them. Is there a way to tell emerge to do this on

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/07/13 14:24, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: On 07/29/2013 01:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many important packages are being updated in a world update. Normally

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/07/13 14:27, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-29 7:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many important packages are being updated in a world update

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/07/13 14:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:18:03 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up first using quickpkg. I'm often in a situation though where many important packages are being updated in a world update

[gentoo-user] Re: Gallium and nVidia

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/07/13 18:38, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, I would like to some clarification to support my feeling regarding gallium related use flags in mesa package. For some reason I have to rebuild a few packages on my machine and xorg-server and mesa are among them. I experienced that if the xorg

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/07/13 01:18, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/07/13 14:24, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: On 07/29/2013 01:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Normally, when I'm about to update an important package, I back it up first using

[gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?

2013-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/13 19:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:49:46 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: emerge -av1 \$(qfile -q -S -C /usr/share/bash-completion) little syntax help: emerge -av1 $(qfile -q -S -C /usr/share/bash-completion) emerge -1a /usr/share/bash-completion Yes we

[gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?

2013-07-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/07/13 21:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:47:38 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Yes we learned this trick a month or two ago. Apparently, not all of us. And apparently not even the Gentoo dev who put that message in the ebuild :-) Is is portage 2.2 only? I don't have

[gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?

2013-07-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/07/13 15:06, Douglas J Hunley wrote: As of bash-completion-2.1-r1 it appears the eselect module is gone and the use of /etc/bash-completion.d is dead. Does this mean that all completions are enabled globally by default now? It used to be that you could turn each individual one on/off

[gentoo-user] Re: bash-completion change?

2013-07-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/07/13 22:13, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jul 26 2013, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 24/07/13 15:06, Douglas J Hunley wrote: As of bash-completion-2.1-r1 it appears the eselect module is gone and the use of /etc/bash-completion.d is dead. Does this mean that all completions are enabled

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.2

2013-07-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/07/13 13:00, Pavel Volkov wrote: What is the status or portage 2.2? It takes so long to get out of alpha. Has anyone here had any serious problems with it? I've been using it for a a few years without any accidents. Just wondering if I should be prepared for the worst. I also remember

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/07/13 08:43, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 23/07/13 00:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote: This would be a lot less of an issue if someone just wrote a logind ebuild (wink wink) that provides consolekit like it was originally intended. not possible, logind since systemd = 205 requires systemd and

[gentoo-user] Re: Any way of tracing kernel freezes?

2013-06-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/06/13 16:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. [...] [...] I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful passes. I might try that again as soon as I find out how¹, but I'd think that a corrupt memory would cause

[gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/06/13 07:34, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, My sound started sounding like crap ~6 months ago. Imagine someone has control of my volume knob and is quickly (~5Hz) turning the volume knob up and down. That is a rough idea of what it sounds like. Are you using a self-configured kernel?

[gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/06/13 01:47, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using a self-configured kernel? What sound chip is in your laptop? What driver are you using? If it's an Intel codec, have you tried enabling all different variants

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/05/13 12:12, Dale wrote: [...] The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K menu thingy either. Everything in the kicker

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/05/13 15:14, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 26/05/13 12:12, Dale wrote: [...] The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel panick after time while compiling....

2013-05-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/05/13 02:15, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! When I merge large or big packages like firefox, thunderbird or chromium. The system hangsup with kernel panick and displays on the screen reboot after 30 seconds. What could it be?! Install sys-apps/memtest86+ make a bootloader entry for it

[gentoo-user] Re: uninstalled linux-headers

2013-05-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/05/13 16:20, Tamer Higazi wrote: Where does Gentoo install the linux-headers, after compilining on the system?! They are installed in: /usr/include/asm-generic /usr/include/mtd /usr/include/linux /usr/include/asm there is no compilation going on; these are just headers.

[gentoo-user] Re: high resolution console

2013-05-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/05/13 17:48, Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 04:05:32PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot I am will see a high resolution console. When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch

[gentoo-user] Re: system time 6-hr. ahead

2013-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/13 08:25, Joseph wrote: My computer time reported by asterisk server or php database is 6hr ahead. Why? My desktop clock is correct, and command line date reporting local time as well. My /etc/conf.d/hwclock clock=local clock_hctosys=YES clock_systohc=YES Should I set clock=UTC? I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: system time 6-hr. ahead

2013-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/13 17:23, Joseph wrote: On 05/11/13 09:56, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/05/13 08:25, Joseph wrote: My computer time reported by asterisk server or php database is 6hr ahead. Why? My desktop clock is correct, and command line date reporting local time as well. My /etc/conf.d/hwclock

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice Compile

2013-05-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/05/13 20:53, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a way that i can compile Libreoffice on my Desktop System and copy to the Netbook? Because the netbook need long time to compile libreoffice, and the Desktop is little faster. Or can i build a libreoffice Package on Desktop and copy to the

[gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/04/13 11:50, Joerg Schilling wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Would you call someone who shoots himself into the foot smart? Recent Linux kernels support fcaps in the filesystems and somebody evil, who knows what he does may even set up fcaps on executable files when

[gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/04/13 14:33, Joerg Schilling wrote: Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: with the situation I have here. In my opinion it is a good idea to add such an option. If you think otherwise I am fine with it and I have to use other means to make cdrtools compatible with Gentoo. Cdrtools

[gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/04/13 16:09, Joerg Schilling wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: But please first explain what option you are talking about. An option to forcibly enable and disable support. If enabled, the build system assumes the library is there. If disabled, it assumes the library

[gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/04/13 17:22, Joerg Schilling wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: You don't know what my intentions are. I might be doing testing, debugging, who knows what. It's the trying to be smarter than the user thing. The defaults of course would be to built the software in a sane

[gentoo-user] Re: Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin

2013-04-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/04/13 14:48, Mick wrote: Updating dev-libs/icu-51.1 uninstalled /usr/lib64/libicuuc.so.49.1.2 and when I try to start Dolphin I get: == There was an error loading the module Dolphin View. The diagnostics is: Cannot load library

[gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root

2013-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/04/13 23:20, Joerg Schilling wrote: The only problem I see is that you are able to remove important software on a Linux installation while the kernel still supports the feature by default. You are not able to remove it if something actually uses it. If you remove the automagic

[gentoo-user] Re: -march=? for this cpu

2013-04-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/04/13 06:50, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: [...] This is the /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 [...] Any idea what should be the march/mtune value? Your best bet is to ask

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page You should probably also read: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictably-non-persistent-names and: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictable-persistently-non-mnemonic-names

[gentoo-user] Re: abi_x86_32

2013-03-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/03/13 16:21, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: By the way, I found this: $ cat /usr/portage/profiles/desc/abi_x86.desc [...] 32 - 32-bit (x86) libraries 64 - 64-bit (amd64) libraries x32 - x32 ABI libraries ...and searching for USE_EXPAND in http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/

[gentoo-user] Re: abi_x86_32

2013-03-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/03/13 20:39, Paul Hartman wrote: Like the forum post you linked says, instead of setting abi_x86_32 as a USE flag, what you can do in your make.conf is set: ABI_X86=64 32 (if you want to build both 32bit and 64bit) I think ABI_X86=32 is enough, since on AMD64 the 64 is always there

[gentoo-user] Re: screen tearing when moving windows...

2013-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/03/13 06:01, 木叶 wrote: Hi all, I'm suffering screen tearing when moving windows around, watching videos, and some other situations. I've tried almost all popular desktop environments, including KDE, gnome(both traditional gnome 2 and new gnome 3), and xfce, the issue always exists except

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/13 21:04, Daniel Wagener wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:49:02 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Mmmh. What sources do you use? In vanilla-sources-3.8.2, there is a r8169 driver: ./drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c config R8169 tristate Realtek 8169 gigabit

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone running ck-sources-3.7.10?

2013-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/03/13 01:14, walt wrote: My mojo seems to be broken lately :( I just updated a gentoo vbox guest from ck-sources-3.6.11-r1 to 3.7.10 and I'm seeing file-system corruption and a segfaulting NetworkManager during bootup. I went back one snapshot and I'm going to try switching to

[gentoo-user] How to disable Windows x64 support in Wine?

2013-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
app-emulation/wine-1.5.25 has (for some reason I can't comprehend) removed its win64 USE flag. Does anyone know how to disable 64-bit Windows support now?

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable Windows x64 support in Wine?

2013-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/13 20:26, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: app-emulation/wine-1.5.25 has (for some reason I can't comprehend) removed its win64 USE flag. Does anyone know how to disable 64-bit Windows support now? You want to override

[gentoo-user] Re: Restart frozen X

2013-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/02/13 05:18, Joseph wrote: I'm running Nvidia driver: 310.32 with my GeForce GTS 450 kernle-3.1.6 but I've noticed it freezes my screen once a day or ever second day. Mouse is moving but no icon is responding, nor can I use the keyboard (all frozen). I can login to the system over ssh.

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/02/13 00:53, Joseph wrote: On 02/23/13 08:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:15 -0700, Joseph wrote: I'm starting to have serious doubts in Nvidia (those binary drivers are piece of crap). My system just freeze after one day; I went back to nvidia-dirvers-295.75 Have

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/02/13 08:14, Joseph wrote: I just upgraded system including kernel to 3.5.7 because of udev-197 Now I have a blank screen, not even console login (I can only access is via ssh) With NVidia, it is usually a good idea to at least use the latest stable gentoo-sources. So you should use

[gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

2013-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/13 09:52, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Is it officially supported now? Or has been discontinued like flash? I'm mainly interested in the NPAPI plug in since it would allow me to use the same thing in Firefox and chromium. Are there any other good PDF readers with NPAPI? Don't suggest

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers fail to determine kernel version

2013-02-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/02/13 16:56, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when using vanilla kernel 3.7.5 (appropiate kernel headers installed) emergeing nvidia-drivers 313.18 works fine. As soon vanilla kernel 3.7.6 are installed the emerge process fails because the kernel version couldnt be determined. Both times

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers-304.64 build failure against vanilla linux-3.7.4

2013-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/01/13 02:06, staticsafe wrote: I just grabbed vanilla 3.7.4 from kernel.org, the kernel build itself went fine but when I did a modules-rebuild, the nvidia module failed to build. As requested by the error message: output of `emerge --info '=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.64'`:

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem

2013-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/01/13 21:15, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 24.01.2013 18:57, schrieb Jacques Montier: 2013/1/24 microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org [...] Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost 1.49 (so works with boost-1.52.0-r5) and Nightshade LSS (for

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost version problem

2013-01-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/01/13 17:05, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:53:48 +0100 Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Libreoffice-4.0 needs boost 1.49 (so works with boost-1.52.0-r5) and Nightshade LSS (for planetarium but not in portage) needs boost 1.5 (so works with 1.49.0-r2). Is

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 03:55, Dale wrote: [...] I tired overclocking once a good while back. It just wasn't worth it. I've been running a Core 2 Duo from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz for over three years. Instead of a new CPU, I only bought a €30 cooler. Oh, it *was* totally worth it. Mainly for games, where

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 14:09, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/01/13 03:55, Dale wrote: [...] I tired overclocking once a good while back. It just wasn't worth it. I've been running a Core 2 Duo from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz for over three years. Instead of a new CPU, I only bought a €30 cooler

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 17:09, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 23 January 2013 07:52:03 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] In my experience, most of the time you can overclock. The issue is with the user not knowing exactly how to do it. You need to understand a few things and how they affect

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 18:22, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:35:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The part that's really important is the mainboard. RAM doesn't matter. As I said above, the mainboard is really the only important factor. Though I've not overclocked in better than

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 19:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.01.2013 16:35, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 23/01/13 17:09, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 23 January 2013 07:52:03 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] In my experience, most of the time you can overclock. The issue

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/01/13 19:13, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.01.2013 09:21, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 23/01/13 03:55, Dale wrote: [...] I tired overclocking once a good while back. It just wasn't worth it. I've been running a Core 2 Duo from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz for over three years. Instead

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/01/13 09:41, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I have this old E2180 processor and no money as of now to buy a new rig :P I'm trying to overclock my CPU using BIOS host clock control and everything is fine at 2.6 Ghz up to bootloader. Kernel segfaults. Any idea why? I'm running pf-kernel 3.7.2

[gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/01/13 13:14, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2013 03:13:01 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/01/13 09:41, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I have this old E2180 processor and no money as of now to buy a new rig :P I'm trying to overclock my CPU using BIOS host clock

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/01/13 16:04, walt wrote: This seems to me like very happy news indeed, but I'm interested in contrary opinions. There's a recent thread discussing how udev-197 breaks lvm2, but that's a trivial fix once you know about it. The problem is caused because many apps including lvm2 install

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/01/13 19:51, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.01.2013 16:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Running this command (all in one line): emerge -p1 $(for p in $(qfile -Cvq $(find /usr/lib/udev/) | sort -u); do echo =$p; done) should re-emerge all packages that still have files there. After

[gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib

2013-01-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/13 00:33, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:42:37AM -0600, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote No, because the problem has never been in udev (nor systemd, for that matter). It fixes how *Gentoo* packages udev; probably the devs read the following comment from Lennart (note it was

[gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or something like that (it scrolls by very fast and openrc doesn't seem to log

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash

2013-01-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/01/13 18:32, Mick wrote: I was trying to zero out a USB stick and at some point it seems to have locked itself up. By that I mean that for all intends and purposes I cannot write to it in any conceivable way. Can you elaborate on that? Do you get any error messages from dd or in

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/12/12 08:28, Walter Dnes wrote: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X has

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/12/12 17:05, Teodor Spæren wrote: It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. I would forget about it. It was possible in the days of GCC 3 and 2.95. Unless you don't care that emerging a complete system will

[gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/12/12 21:23, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the system powered off overnight fixed the problem and

[gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/12/12 23:00, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/12/12 21:23, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde

[gentoo-user] Re: does texlive-2012 have the media9 macro?

2012-12-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 22/12/12 19:32, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I have texlive-2011 installed into my gentoo version at the moment (recent portage updated) and the latex media9 macro is not there. I could use the ~amd64 keyword to get the unstable version 2012 of texlive emerged but before I try that I am

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/12/12 08:52, ckard wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/19/2012 22:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman

[gentoo-user] How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman But it doesn't work; emerge complains: Invalid '-' operator in non-incremental variable 'ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES': '-connman' So how does this work?

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I remove a module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES?

2012-12-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/12/12 06:26, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/19/2012 22:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I want to remove the connman module from ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES. I've put this in my make.conf: ENLIGHTENMENT_MODULES = -connman But it doesn't work; emerge complains: Invalid '-' operator in non

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/env for a whole category

2012-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/12/12 22:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello again, I would like to include debug info into more of my system, but still not the whole userland. So I'd like to start with libs. But how do I tell portage do to it? I've been using portage/env before for selected packages, namely: $ cat

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/12/12 12:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you have /usr on a separate partition?

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/12/12 00:14, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2012, 23:19:46 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 15/12/12 12:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/portage/env for a whole category

2012-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/12/12 01:56, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you really want -ggdb instead of just -g, then use that instead, though it will take more space for no real benefit, unless you actually need the extra debug info for some reason

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/12/12 14:19, Dale wrote: I'm thinking of switching and getting rid of the init thingy Huh?

[gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print If you are affected by this bug, then the above will print something

[gentoo-user] Re: Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/12 07:27, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print Small

[gentoo-user] Re: need firewalld?

2012-12-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/12 13:31, Jarry wrote: I just noticed some strange message when shutting down my server: ... * Bringing down interface eth0 * Caching network module dependencies need firewalld * Removing addresses ... What does that need firewalld mean? Why should it be needed? AFAIK

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/12 16:36, Jacques Montier wrote: As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing nothing). Could it be a disk indexing service, like KDE's Nepomuk?

[gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird (~17.0) good idea?

2012-12-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/12/12 00:19, James wrote: Hello, I have thunderbird-10.0.11, and it works OK. It has simple things missing, like the ability to set what app to handle .ppt files Anyone tryied thunderbird (~17.0) ? commnet? I used testing packages but, not much tolerance for hacking at the mail

[gentoo-user] Re: qlist -IC x11-drivers - Segmentation fault

2012-11-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/11/12 02:31, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update drivers after xorg-server emerge but this command is not recognized: emerge -1av $(qlist -IC x11-drivers) running: qlist -IC x11-drivers gives me: Segmentation fault It is recognized just fine. Segmentation fault does not mean

[gentoo-user] Re: Trailing colon and integer in output of emerge

2012-11-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/11/12 14:46, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11/12/2012 01:28:08 PM, Redcap wrote: Today I noticed that emerge adds a colon together with an integer to the version of every package it wants to update, e.g. it says [ebuild U ~] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 [4.9.2:4] USE=handbook kontact (- aqua)

[gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/11/12 00:53, walt wrote: [...] You Lennart haters out there (and I was one of you not so long ago ;) now I think he's not so bad after all. I'll like systemd when I can just emerge it and have it working, just like I can with OpenRC :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Who is mounting /lib64/splash/cache?

2012-11-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/11/12 16:46, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I have a system where I disabled the fbcondecor kernel option (gentoo-sources), and the system boots in standard VGA text mode (80x25). Additionally, I have removed the fbcondecor

[gentoo-user] Who is mounting /lib64/splash/cache?

2012-11-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I have a system where I disabled the fbcondecor kernel option (gentoo-sources), and the system boots in standard VGA text mode (80x25). Additionally, I have removed the fbcondecor service from startup. However, something in the system still mounts /lib64/splash/cache. Also, OpenRC produces

[gentoo-user] Re: remove fancy framebuffer on boot

2012-10-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/10/12 19:22, Tami King wrote: I have a new laptop and when it boots after the initial start up the output goes from a larger text to something very small with the penguins displayed. My desktop doesn't do this and I am pretty sure that I shut if off there and I don't remember what I did

[gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/10/12 06:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: [snip] On my part, I will continue to be concerned until the investigation has fully run its course. That is, of course, your prerogative. I just posted a comment from

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --depclean' continuously drops dev-lang/ekopath

2012-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/09/12 10:10, Stefan Hübner wrote: Everytime 'emerge --depclean' drops dev-lang/ekopath it is reinstalled on the next world update. I guess dev-lang/ekopath is pulled in by dev-lang/R in my case (I do not USE fortran). ekopath provides virtual/fortran which in turn is required by R. [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher=blowfish numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. [...] BUT trying to do (which has been working for a long time)

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! I filed a bug now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435540 Everyone who's affected should feel free to confirm there.

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

2012-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/09/12 22:48, Mick wrote: I got this message in elog: * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4: * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols. * To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf * and remerge glibc. See: *

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

2012-09-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/09/12 23:44, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/09/12 22:48, Mick wrote: I got this message in elog: * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4: * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Since two days I think, I have the same problem. Not with sshfs, but with NTFS-3G, which uses FUSE. I can mount as user, but I can only unmount as root. I've no

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/09/12 22:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:33:55 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Since two days I think, I have the same problem. Not with sshfs, but with NTFS-3G, which uses FUSE. I can

[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user

2012-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 14/09/12 02:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:05:36 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It appears to be the kernel module AFACT. I tried every version of fuse going back to 2.8.6, all with the same problem. Then I tried it on a box still running a 3.9.6 kernel and it worked

[gentoo-user] Re: USB automount

2012-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/12 11:56, Philip Webb wrote: 120911 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 Chris Stankevitz asked how to automount a USB stick : A GUI is not necessary. Every time a USB device is inserted or removed, an event is triggered by the kernel. What's required is an event handler that

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

2012-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/12 01:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:46:14 -0700 Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and questioning) what is going to

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/09/12 19:12, Samuraiii wrote: Hello, because I broke me PC and I need to reinstall it I'm going ask what should I preserve to make install faster: 1. I presume that /home can be left intact. 2. I plan to backup /etc and after reinstall I'm going to diff /etc.old with /etc to see what

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