Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Spackman, Chris
2d02bbe9281b8362fa549991b7581b7758668 > > I'll try that and see if my version of the problem appears again. Thanks for finding that. I love patches that I can actually understand. I've also applied the fix. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ESOL Coordinator, The Graham Family of Schools ESL E

Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2024/01/05 at 10:57am, Andreas Fink wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100 > Arve Barsnes wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes? > > > > I've also had this happen a few ti

[gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-04 Thread Spackman, Chris
Not sure if SDDM is a cause or a symptom, but /tmp/ should usually have something like this: > chris:~$ ll /tmp/ | grep sddm > srwxrwxrwx 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 dbus-blahblah > srwx-- 1 sddmsddm 0 Jan 4 06:56 sddm-:0-blahblah > srwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot

Re: [gentoo-user] slim gives me blank screen after entering wrong password

2023-04-08 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2023/04/07 at 11:40am, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 4/7/23 11:06, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > On 2023/04/06 at 06:53pm, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm starting X server via "slim" (XFCE4). When I enter a wrong > >> password the slim will

Re: [gentoo-user] slim gives me blank screen after entering wrong password

2023-04-07 Thread Spackman, Chris
uter. Have you tried restarting the 'display-manager' service instead? IIRC, it replaced xdm. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ESOL Coordinator, The Graham Family of Schools ESOL Educator, Columbus State Community College Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (Wajima, Ishikawa 1995-1998) Linux user since 1998 Linux User #137532

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Chris Phillips
Thanks! On 2022-03-02 9:43 a.m., tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-02 09:27-0500 Chris Phillips wrote: > >> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-libs/gtkd" has unmet >> requirements. >> - dev-libs/gtkd-3.9.0::dlang USE="opengl -dmd-2_074 -dmd-2_075 >>

[gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Chris Phillips
Any Dlang users/experts out there? The following is hanging me up: # emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse --changed-use --verbose-conflicts --backtrack=3000 --keep-going=y --sync dlang >>> Syncing repository 'dlang' into '/var/lib/layman/dlang'... /usr/bin/git fetch origin Already

Re: [gentoo-user] viewer for "ps" postscript files

2021-12-23 Thread Spackman, Chris
an error: I honestly have no idea about hylafax and YajHFC. Unless there is more here than just trying to view a .ps file (or you are working in a very restricted environment), they are probably not the best tool. -- Chris Spackman (he / him)

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-23 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/12/21 at 07:17pm, Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/12/2021 18:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > 2b. press the "export video" button at the bottom of the window. Here, > > for me, the defaults work fine. > > The problem is 2b. For me, it's an extremely simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/12/21 at 05:13pm, Wols Lists wrote: > On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of > >> a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-21 Thread Spackman, Chris
video editing. I like veed.io just because it can add and then translate subtitles (which I need for my job), but I'm sure there are many others. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESOL CoordinatorThe Graham Family of Scho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-09-27 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2021/09/27 at 11:07pm, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-09-27, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > > If it is still working, that is great news for users of > > Chromium-based browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think > > it is safe to expect the behavior to continue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-09-27 Thread Spackman, Chris
work, either This Week In Tech or maybe Security Now talked about Google closing that "bug". If it is still working, that is great news for users of Chromium-based browsers that aren't Google Chrome, but I don't think it is safe to expect the behavior to continue. -- Chris Spackman

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrome - no system title bar or boarders

2021-09-24 Thread Spackman, Chris
rome bug that is fixed / being fixed in the next version (also from the above link). I have NOT tried this fix on KDE. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-03-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
e tab and choosing "Move tab to new window" (if there is only one window) or "Move tab to another window" => "New window" (if there is already more than one window) works without problem. I've no idea what is causing the problem. Fluxbox is my window manager. -- Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-19 Thread Spackman, Chris
to an easier password. Luckily / Oddly, the site did allow pasting into the password field for regular log in. -- Chris Spackman (he / him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL Instructor

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-17 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
Hi, On 16/09/20 11:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Changing the subject does not start a new thread, nor should it. Sorry! Will be more careful in future. Chris PS 2nd try using correct list membership (*Darn this old version of thunderbird). PPS Removed old, intended to be funny sig. --

[gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-16 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
2.0:3.0::gentoo USE="cairo libnotify opengl -examples" \ PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB I can successfully cut those out and apply the rest of the ebuilds, can't determine what is pulling in wxpython. Any ideas on what I need to do to keep these from occurring? Thanks, Chr

Re: [gentoo-user] A new Linux back door

2020-08-14 Thread Spackman, Chris
gned_kernel_module_support but haven't had time to try it yet. Does anyone have experience with digitally signing kernel modules on Gentoo? -- Chris Spackman (he/him) ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL Instru

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread Spackman, Chris
problems with drives, so I can't say how much either has helped. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Schools ESL Instructor Columbus State Community College Ja

Re: [gentoo-user] Help working around a bug...

2020-04-26 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
Hi, On 25/04/20 11:27 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 4/25/20 11:20 AM, "Chris Phillips"@T O wrote: How do I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ? If it's a one-time thing, you can set the EXTRA_ECONF environment variable to contain the extra arguments to .

[gentoo-user] Help working around a bug...

2020-04-25 Thread "Chris Phillips"@T O
I override the ./configure options for emerge [-r] ? Chris --

Re: [gentoo-user] Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
one liked it. Probably an uncanny vallley thing. So, they dropped it. (IIRC, I heard that on TWIT a while back.) Maybe two cameras could do it better, though? -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graha

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and script block tool/addon

2020-02-17 Thread Spackman, Chris
ike 28, of which I allow 19. It would not be fun to try to go through all of those to figure out which ones are absolutely necessary. You'd be examining, allowing, and reloading 20 times per site, at first. Maybe the Tor Browser people would be interested in working on such an a

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
months for roughly weekly backups and some misc storage. So far, I've not seen any problems with it. The drive immediately shuts down, and there haven't been any data or performance issues. But because no one else has mentioned it, I wonder udisksctl is not the best too

Re: [gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
System 76 instead - hopefully a computer build for Linux will not come with any of these issues out of the box. Thanks for your help. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator The Graham Family of Scho

Re: [gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-12 Thread Spackman, Chris
Thank you, I had not seen that. > Is it a first gen processor, or a 2XXX one? Not sure. Thanks for the advice. I actually ended up returning the computer. It started crashing in addition to this problem, so it was no longer worth my time to try to figure out. --

[gentoo-user] ryzen and c-state poweroffs?

2019-05-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
ry 15 minutes. This seems to work, but it is obviously not a long term solution. I checked for a bios update, but there was not one available. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there maybe a /sys/ or /proc/ file I can tweak to avoid bios powering things off? Thanks. -- Chris Spackman

Re: [gentoo-user] pam issues with crontab and xscreensaver

2019-04-26 Thread Spackman, Chris
On 2019/04/26 at 10:14am, Spackman, Chris wrote: > But, xscreensaver cannot recognize my password. It just says incorrect > (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1, > log in, and kill xscreensaver. > > Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regula

[gentoo-user] pam issues with crontab and xscreensaver

2019-04-26 Thread Spackman, Chris
password. It just says incorrect (or permission denied?) and will not unlock. I had to switch to vt1, log in, and kill xscreensaver. Similar with "crontab -e" (as a regular user). It tells me I do not have permission: "You (chris) are not allowed to access to (crontab) because of pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups can't see my USB printer

2019-02-17 Thread Spackman, Chris
o change the permissions I'm not sure when this started, but I first noticed it a few weeks ago. Not a huge issue, so I've not put much effort into trying to find the cause, I'm afraid. -- Chris Spackman ch...@osugisakae.com ESL Coordinator

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile 17: How urgent is the rebuild of world technically?

2017-12-03 Thread Spackman, Chris
to continue. I am actually almost 75% done with the system rebuild and have had to do this so far with cdrdao and spideroak-bin (which probably doesn't matter as it is a -bin package). -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.24-r2 failed (install phase)

2017-06-16 Thread Spackman, Chris
milar issue with texinfo just yesterday, but not with glibc - I was unable to emerge almost anything. In my case, I think texinfo was a symptom, not the problem. Perhaps it is similar in your case? I ran "perl-cleaner --all" once or twice, did an "emerge --deep -av --newuse @world" which found one package to update, and then maybe perl-cleaner again, and finally, "emerge --deep -avu @world" was able to upgrade / reinstall texinfo. After that, I was able to emerge new packages just fine. So, point is - maybe try running something like perl-cleaner, revdep-rebuild, or the such? -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

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

2015-09-30 Thread Chris Spackman
ave tried with it. Only issue I have noticed is that check marks (which show up fine on the screen) end up printed as another character. Still better than dealing with acroread, in my opinion. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-21 Thread Chris Spackman
. FWIW, I tried ownCloud a couple of times and could never get it up and running properly. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox problem

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Spackman
(probably next week), I will check for the behavior you found. -- Chris Spackman GNU Terry Pratchett

[gentoo-user] sound stuttering, breaking up, fading in and out

2015-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
04/12/2015)(aac alsa cache ffmpeg flac mad magic unicode vorbis -curl -debug -jack -libsamplerate -modplug -musepack -oss -sid -sndfile -speex -timidity -tremor -wavpack) (I removed Quodlibet recently for unrelated reasons.) Thanks for any and all help and advice. -- Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stuttering, breaking up, fading in and out

2015-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
On 2015/04/18 at 08:11pm, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2015 6:46:37 PM Chris Spackman wrote: I have an issue with sound during music and sometimes video playback. The Arch wiki has a lot of tips for configure pulseaudio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to full multilib

2015-04-01 Thread Chris Camisa
On 03/30/2015 02:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I was also wondering if there might a way for emerge to show you which packages have USE flags enabled that aren't required by any dependent package: it would be sort of like emerge --depclean but for USE flags instead of packages themselves.

Re: [gentoo-user] So emerge spoke ...

2015-02-10 Thread Chris McGinley
On 02/10/15 13:13, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 18:15:44 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: How can I list all offending ones? Check in /var/lib/portage/world if there are any lines starting with perl-core If yes, remove these lines and try again. I found the answers

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
included them to encourage answers that explain how things work. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
, I don't think it'll set up an icon automatically. Yes I agree. I am still curious what is the mechanism that causes icons to appear on the desktop of popular GUIs. I suspect the answer involves the magic of policykit/consolekit/dbus/hal/gvfs/gnome-vfs/fuse/hotplug/udisks/etc. Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to umount or to quickly navigate to the mounted directory. 10. Bonus: if you use words like dbus/policykit/consolekit/COM/DDE/OLE that allow me to get a technical understanding of the mechanisms in play. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
# 2014-07-05 Avoid password entry program that disallows paste app-crypt/pinentry Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
complex/unique passwords. Perhaps in the future (2015) everybody will support something like the Yubikey HW OTP... in which case it won't matter if everyone sees my password! Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
or GPG_AGENT_INFO. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
. Also, I thought the ssh folks were BSD-friendly and GPG was GPL-friendly. Thanks, Chris

[gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
. pinentry is on my system because it is a dependency of gpg. gpg is on my system because I use thunderbird with +crypt (which is the default). Question: By what mechanism does ssh know to use the program pinentry to acquire my passphrase? Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] How does ssh know to use pinentry?

2014-07-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to use pinentry to acquire my passphrase. However, I still do not understand how that variable got set or how/why ssh behaves differently when it is set. Chris

[gentoo-user] kswapd0 100% CPU with swapoff and no memory demands on system

2014-05-03 Thread Chris Stankevitz
mounted? Q3: Is there anything I can do to prevent kswapd0 from using CPU on my system? e.g. disable SWAP in the kernel config I suspect the answer to Q1 is: a) kernel is not configured properly for my hardware or b) there is some bad side effect to my readonly root fs Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] init.d/openvpn starts init.d/net.eno1

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to not start at all. However, I find myself in a situation where I need to switch my internet access from net.eno1 to wicd. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA + opencl = requires video_cards_radeon

2014-05-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Éric DUNAND eric.dunand...@eriknet.eu wrote: Btw, if you intend to try the intel sdk for opencl, it actually computes on the cpu, not the integrated graphics. Eric, Thank you. I will try to use beignet as I am using Intel hardware. Chris

[gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test.

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. So, is there a keyword block

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708.html#a278743 Or is it another one? http://search.gmane.org/?query=author=Chris

Actually, pay no mind... Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 3:05 PM, Chris Walters wrote: On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: .snip. Feel free to put the entire mail including headers on a pastebin / gist. Pastebin / gist? How would I do that? It is not really that important to me to post something that, by definition, is off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Walters
some information on it that is a good beginning for researching this bug, the the lists I mentioned above are probably the best source of information, after you understand the basics from the web page. Chris Walters

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2014-04-08 Thread Chris Stankevitz
VIDEO_CARDS setting should I use? 3. Which packages should be emerged? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? I would not expect portage to want to do this because: 1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system) 2. opencv-2.4.5 is masked Thank you, Chris = jane ~ # grep opencv /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
opencv greater than 2.4.5 (i.e. 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8). I wonder if my greater than symbol was interpreted as a reply quote: *** jane ~ # grep opencv /etc/portage/package.mask *** # 2014-03-13: Hold off on opencv upgrade *** media-libs/opencv-2.4.5 Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
~ # Chris

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? This is solved: 1. opencv has USE=cuda. I have opencv-2.4.5 installed. 2. I had these mask rules: # 2013-12-24

[gentoo-user] Where is /etc/conf.d/net.example?

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Stankevitz
? I'm using wicd now but I want to ditch wicd and replace it with the generally accepted correct gentoo way. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Stephen Reynolds Sent: 02/03/14 11:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Net work cards if I run ifconfig -a this currently what I get. I have completed the installtion, but Kernel Modules I am not sure about. You can get the info

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Joseph Sent: 01/25/14 10:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm compile error

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
FreeBSD use it and say is stable. FreeBSD maybe not the reference on earth but the BSD's make a good job. When i saw all versions of Clang is masked. Isn't FBSD more similar than, say, Linux, to what OSX is, sort of? I could be way off. But I think of OSX as being FBSD built for people

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Lee Sent: 01/24/14 12:46 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels However, IIRC there is a grub2 command called update-grub that scans all your boot sectors on all your devices. At least that's the way its _sposed_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: James Sent: 01/24/14 01:14 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels Lee ny6p01 at gmail.com writes: I am using grub2 also, but on another distro, with multiple kernels/partitions. I don't have a lot of firsthand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-24 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: James Sent: 01/24/14 05:27 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels I had a problem with the doc useflag, so I've been reading across the net. So now all of those docs are installing. I re-emerged with the doc

[gentoo-user] Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
parameters do I used to avoid a clobber? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] Re: Will ZFS clobber my MBR?

2014-01-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: But why don't you install lilo on /dev/sdb? You change change the boot order in BIOS after that. Michael, Thank you, that worked perfectly. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
think I would be interested in is more of a global squash. No matter which UID is making the connection, squash it over to the generic local UID which was granted rw access to the share. Thanks again, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-20 Thread Chris Stankevitz
. For some reason, it seems most sources stick to these too-general or too-specific talking points: a) NFS is fast replacement for SMB b) edit your fstab and modify your exports to get it working Chris

[gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Stankevitz
with an approach that will allow a regular user to mount any network share with the mount command. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounts NFS in XFCE4

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Stankevitz
-l /home/cstankevitz/Desktop/ drwxr-xr-x 2 rootroot 2 Jan 19 20:37 sdn_collections Please note how the ownership changes from cstankevitz to root after I mount. What am I doing wrong? Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
it and everything has permissions 777, regardless of who plugged it in. Considering the nature of a USB stick, this is almost always what you want. Alan, Thank you very much this is exactly what I needed to understand. It sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a PITA. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Stick with FAT, where thereis no ownership so Linux pretend all files are owned by whoever mounted the drive. Neil, Thank you. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/01/2014 01:31, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like trying to manage a shared disk/stick with ext* would be a PITA. yes

[gentoo-user] Preparing a shared USB stick

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to be writable by anyone? 3. How can I ensure that all files will appear to have the same owner; or, if this is not important, can you explain why it should not be a problem. And of course if you can refer me to a document that explains this I'm happy to read it. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
/package.mask This downgraded me to: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-325.15 USE=X acpi (multilib) tools -pax_kernel Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
know how it goes! PS: Installing the CUDA runtime and SDK is easier on Gentoo than on any other linux distro. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Stankevitz
/research community. CUDA is a PITA because due to the closed-source short-and-curly dependence on NVIDIA corporation. Chris

[gentoo-user] Do I require static nodes?

2013-11-26 Thread Chris Stankevitz
nodes? Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
-2.0.3[ruby_targets_ruby19] # required by virtual/rubygems-4 # required by dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6[-test,ruby_targets_ruby19] # required by dev-ruby/json-1.8.0[-test,-doc,ruby_targets_ruby18] # required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1 # required by sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8 Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
RUBY_TARGETS=ruby18 ruby19 to make.conf' Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
, to no avail... Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords 3. update your system Chris

[gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Stankevitz
a bunch of ruby_targets_ruby20 use flags in /etc/portage/package.use Thank you, Chris === The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: (see package.use in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by dev-lang/ruby-2.0.0_p247-r1[rdoc] # required by dev-ruby/racc-1.4.9

[gentoo-user] Is the ebuild for dhcpcd wrong

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Allison
Hello, when emerging dhcpcd it attempts to retrieve the source from mirrorname/distfiles/... looking at the mirror the file is actually at mirrorname/gentoo/distfiles/... Is this the correct place to bring this to your attention? regards Chris -- _ o , , / | | |_| / \_/ \_| | \__/ \/ \/ |/ \/ \/ \/|/ (|

[gentoo-user] xorg seizes during debugging

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Stankevitz
. My CPU graph which is always updating at 10Hz stops updating. However, the mouse cursor moves. Can someone suggest a teach a man to fish approach I can use to figure out what is causing this? Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] USB disk automatically mounting: how does it work

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
an icon on the desktop. The reason lowly users can mount and write to these devices is E. PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug session pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the variables in my pseudo-description above. Thank you, Chris

[gentoo-user] How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
use nvidia. Chris :(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I downgrade chromium below 29.0.1547.57?

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Stankevitz
the science team knows about the breakage! :-) Works great, thank you. I filed a bug also. Chris

[gentoo-user] The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
but I've been afraid to sync for fear I'll get sucked into having to mask/unmask packages and keep up with the unfolding drama. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-23 Thread Chris Stankevitz
. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Run eselect locale, first with the list parameter and then the set parameter as appropriate. It's easier. Kerin, all, Thank for your help. SVN (and I'm sure other apps) are happy now. Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
not c either since I just made it up. Thank you, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
use virtualbox to run a 32 bit xubuntu that is used only to view webpages that demand flash. I start it up ~once/week. Chris

[gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-05 Thread Chris Stankevitz
to this question: Is my gentoo system properly setup? If not, what step did I miss that is causing svn to want me to export LC_CTYPE? I suspect either my gentoo system is messed up or svn is messed up. Thank you, Chris

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