Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

2021-04-07 Thread Dan Egli
It's worth a shot. I never completely got boolean logic, so you may be right. And the result is no joy. I changed it to or, restarted syslog-ng and tailed /var/log/messages, just in time to catch a botnet trying a brute-force attack. Since all the sshd messages are comming in through /var

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Michael
and data files would be a smarter approach. If you *must* upgrade your current installation for learning or as an experiment, then this is something which has been done before. You will need to walk through all the major upgrades of the last year, by using git to gradually catch up with th

[gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

2021-09-24 Thread antlists
two partitions. But I get the impression it doesn't run until fstab completes. Catch-22 - fstab tries to mount /home, but it can't until dm-integrity has made the volume appear! So I created a systemd mount unit for /home, which only runs after dm-integrity. Great - I enabled it and it appeared

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

2021-09-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
h fstab. I've created a systemd service, > which fires up dm-integrity on those two partitions. But I get the > impression it doesn't run until fstab completes. Catch-22 - fstab tries > to mount /home, but it can't until dm-integrity has made the volume appear! > Have you t

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

2021-09-25 Thread antlists
ided them together, then put lvm on top of that. Which got me into a bind with fstab. I've created a systemd service, which fires up dm-integrity on those two partitions. But I get the impression it doesn't run until fstab completes. Catch-22 - fstab tries to mount /home, but it can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons?

2021-12-12 Thread Rich Freeman
result is that things will get run at traditional crontab times no matter what, but if those are missed and enough time is accrued then run-crons will catch this and run the job on the next 10min cycle, such as a missed daily overnight slot. So if you don't have your computer on a 3AM then the job wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Dale
it's OK to do on my main install.  I still find it odd but if it is needed and there is a reason for it, sounds good to me.  If this were a bad thing tho, this is why it is always good to look at the output before doing a update.  If this was a serious package that would cause widespread breakage, one w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Wols Lists
cision for languages in general, and the other guys are playing catch-up because nobody noticed. That's not a dig at anybody, it's just life. I used to follow this on the LLVM mailing list, but that's now migrated to discourse, and I think I'm amongst a lot of people who didn't follow it ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Kicad and complications from hdf5 and vtk USE flags. Not package specific tho.

2022-02-18 Thread Dale
idy. > > And when you're trying to fix something, that all goes in one file you > can ditch when it's all gone wrong :-) > > Cheers, > Wol > > I have them all as directories.  Some are specific to KDE, some are for other things.  I organize them, sort of.  I also have

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-28 Thread Dale
il I got back running.  May start moving things around tomorrow.  It can do some of the work while I'm catching catfish bait.  They love bream.  They fun to catch.  They give a good fight for a small fish.  Dale :-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] emerge failes due to no valid source for pythonexec-2.2 when I have pythonexec-2.4 installed???

2022-02-06 Thread Steven Lembark
# emerge --info <https://pastebin.com/M54kvhg1> I spend more time maintaining a language I don't actually use lately... Emerge fails becuase python-exec-2.2 doesn't have its expected Pytnon version. Catch is that it appears that the current version is 2.4, which seems to be installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up KDE config files

2022-04-06 Thread Dale
I may have to start using tar and friends before long.  Even split up, my backup drives are getting a bit full with direct copies.  Someone else mentioned snapshots but I still need to research that.  I need a month of good health to see if I can catch up on the things that need doing here.  :/ Thanks. Dale :-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
ime action. Better than having to type all the exclude directives in the CLI invocation of tar. On the other hand, using --exclude=".cache/*" will catch any and all ".cache" directories, wherever they happen to be in the tree. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-09-06, Michael wrote: > The message indicates subversion needs reinstalling with the downgraded > sqlite > - potentially @preserved-rebuild ought to catch this, or revdep-rebuild. I used to run revdep-rebuild after every update, but a few years ago I thought I read that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Jack
On 9/6/23 12:42, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-09-06, Michael wrote: The message indicates subversion needs reinstalling with the downgraded sqlite - potentially @preserved-rebuild ought to catch this, or revdep-rebuild. I used to run revdep-rebuild after every update, but a few years ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
; > You shouldn't really need to add directories in your PATH manually. > > > > I agree but ls and mount and friends are in /bin and /bin is not in PATH > > and /etc/profile sets this wrong PATH > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin > > Oh! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
le >> > > >> > > You shouldn't really need to add directories in your PATH manually. >> > >> > I agree but ls and mount and friends are in /bin and /bin is not in PATH >> > and /etc/profile sets this wrong PATH >> > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
too linux /vmlinuz-6.1.57-gentoo options root=/dev/sda3 panic=10 net.ifnames=0 i915.enable_ips=0 That's it! There is a separate file for each menu entry, but they are this simple. There's also a global loader.conf, that runs to a massive 2 lines here! -- Neil Bothwick If you catch an exp

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Dale
Julien Roy wrote: > Hello, > > On 6/19/22 21:38, Dale wrote: >> Anyone have ideas on this?  I mess up something?  Catch the tree in a >> bad state?  Something else I'm not aware of?  It's not making sense to >> me yet.  :/ > > sys-fs/udev has been replaced by a U

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
nt seeking is time not spent writing. There is no opportunity to "catch up" as the drive's read/write bandwidth is basically just a function of the recording density and rotational rate and number of platters/etc being read in parallel. If it is seeking it is a lost opportunity to read/write. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-16 Thread Mitch D.
There is a catch related to using EFI without a conventional bootloader. If you want your boot menu to include details such as kernel versions, then it would be necessary to run efibootmgr every time you update the kernel. I'm not sure if the EFI variable storage is resilient to repeated writes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

2023-04-11 Thread Dale
many packages to be rebuilt unnecessarily. > > Before those options came along, I would run emerge -e world to fix problems.  Sometimes revdep-rebuild would catch things but sometimes it wouldn't.  Thing is, since I started using the current options, I have few problems with package upg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

2023-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
oo many packages to be rebuilt > > unnecessarily. > Before those options came along, I would run emerge -e world to fix > problems.  Sometimes revdep-rebuild would catch things but sometimes it > wouldn't.  Thing is, since I started using the current options, I have > few problems wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded

2023-07-08 Thread Dale
out more or something that would catch my eye as I scan the list for USE changes.  The USE changes stand out pretty good as they are.  I've read where one can change the default colors as some background colors make the default colors hard to see.  I use a black background so the default works fine for

Re: [gentoo-user] gui-libs/egl-wayland and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers dependency conflict.

2024-02-17 Thread Dale
Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 18:03, Dale wrote: >> Is there a proper long term fix for this or do I need to mask the egl >> package until things catch up? As long as things work, I'm fine with >> masking and waiting. I just figure there may be a better fix I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox fails to compile. crc32 error??

2023-11-23 Thread Dale
ugs.gentoo.org/838373 >>> I'm not sure how you figured that out either. >>  >> >> I pasted the error message into the search engine of my choice. I think >> there were some results from the Gentoo forums which lead to the bug >> report. > Good catch. I susp

[gentoo-user] Question about emerge sync and where it all goes.

2024-03-24 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've mentioned before that I build my packages in a chroot.  I have a OS copy on a separate drive.  I do this because of the long compile times of some packages.  On occasion tho, I catch the tree in a bad place.  Some conflict or other happens and I need to sync again to get fixes etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly corrupted file systems when resuming from hibernation

2024-04-16 Thread Dale
er questions, I answer no.  Given I start with a kernel config that already contains everything I need, it is rare that I need anything new.  So, I rarely need any of the new drivers.  You are likely the same.  I think there is a option for it to default to no or yes for all the questions automatic

[gentoo-user]  Re: Nvidia drivers

2008-04-01 Thread Gregory Shearman
the kernel devs are trying to update references to the include asm files and the nvidia devs are yet to catch up. Maybe one day nvidia will release its driver specs and save itself a lot of trouble and money building catchup linux drivers. Maybe hell will also freeze over on that day. Hope

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server-console: version `GCC_3.4' not found

2008-04-14 Thread William Kenworthy
quick fix: locate the equivalent system libraries, move the problematic vmware ones out of the way and symlink to the system libs. Works fine with vmware workstation. And wait for gentoo/vmware to catch up and fix with the next iteration ... I am using vmware-workstation 5, and cant justify

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Re: gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
# Mostly so that python supports fetchmailconf I'll try explicitly tweaking the yelp USE flags, but it looks to me like some weirdness... ++ kevin I tried that, and it may have gotten me closer to a solution, or closer to the catch-22. I can't tell which yet. package.use explicitly turns off

Fwd: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-30 Thread Dirk Uys
versions (2.20) of both depend on beagle-0.2.18 If you face problems, feel free to mail this list or catch me (bheekling) or Arun (Ford_Prefect) on #gentoo-desktop @ FreeNode or #dashboard @ GimpNet (depending on whether the question is gentoo-specific or beagle-specifi ;) Should things behave

Re: Fwd: [gentoo-user] beagle and thunderbird

2008-06-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
face problems, feel free to mail this list or catch me (bheekling) or Arun (Ford_Prefect) on #gentoo-desktop @ FreeNode or #dashboard @ GimpNet (depending on whether the question is gentoo-specific or beagle-specifi ;) Should things behave as I expect them to behave? Beagle should behave, cedk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-03 Thread Mark Knecht
an existing VGA core into a new chipset. sometimes it takes Linux quite awhile to catch up on this sort of issue. I had a Compaq laptop a couple of years ago with a new chipset. It was probably 4 months before I could even attempt to turn on DMA on my hard drives. The machine was very slow for quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
about equery check. Thanks! This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. Thanks for the ideas all. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. SNIP Error #3 follows

[gentoo-user] emerge xine-ui fails

2007-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
suggest a fix? Maxim Wexler Catch up on fall's hot new shows on Yahoo! TV. Watch previews, get listings, and more! http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/3658 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Torres
I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which is the same with anything I try

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which is the same with anything I try to emerge. A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so small enough

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread reader
and profiles is very versatile and eventually people like me start to catch on. With the counter balance of the various /etc/portage/package.** files, there are infinite ways to control ones setup. From this discussion I am unable to get an idea what might be coming in the next few mnths. I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
their filters but it is starting to send them to me so it is working a little at least. You can disable spam filtering. Set up a filter to catch all of your e-mail and use the Never send it to Spam option. I am on mailing lists that deal with spam and phishing, probably the majority of the messages would go

[gentoo-user] Downgrading from ~x86 to x86

2009-04-20 Thread daid kahl
. However, even revdep-rebuild will not catch most of these problems, and I have to equery errors like: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so: undefined reference to `g_dgettext' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status For this case, I do a one-shot emerge on gnome-vfs and rebuild the failing package. But I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrading from ~x86 to x86

2009-04-20 Thread Andrey Falko
in my world file) may be the only reason I've had to cleverly rebuild things.  However, even revdep-rebuild will not catch most of these problems, and I have to equery errors like: /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so: undefined reference to `g_dgettext' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status For this case

[gentoo-user] Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm really sorry to keep beating on this portage stuff and I guess I must be something of a dimwit since I find just about anything to do with portage and emerge that is outside `emerge -flags whatever' to be really hard to catch on to, even though (and shouldn't admit this) I've been running

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
-02-19 04:28:48 dsp3 Also, what messages do you get on bootup between Starting udevd and Mounting /dev/pts... Can't see Starting udevd is dmesg or kern.log.0 will try to catch it next boot Do you CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y or =m in your kernel configuration? cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep

[gentoo-user] Re: user agent switcher - automatic

2006-02-13 Thread Mick
and their wysiwyg HTML editing products have cause a lot of bad code out there and it will take some time to people to catch up and clean their code. Until then COMPLAIN! -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-26 Thread Dale
an emerge -DuN world/revdep-rebuild catch them...) It seems strange to me that an emerge -DuN system operation is leading me to do things that don't have anything to do with the system. I'm pretty sure that package is used for a game and just getting caught in this general python-updater process

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
, as every time I scroll up, then lift my finger off, it scrolls down further than I can scroll up! Even the acceleration had changed to make it unusable. I've left the evdev mouse driver as a second mouse to catch all usb mice, and I have my touchpad as the default: Section InputDevice

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2008-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
- if you disable authentication with SSL this problem will go away. - but remain unsolved. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter Hi Peter, Sorry that I'm not much involved in this thread. I'm traveling and trying to catch up so I'm reading on a laptop screen. I'm a bit out of touch. I'm having

[gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem

2009-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
with any unprintable chars, As Willie mentioned the mail mta is capable of rewriting stuff in its configurations. Do you control this machine? Sorry if you've already covered that. Another unlikely thing that can catch you ... happened to me on a remote account I didn't control. The machine

[gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-07 Thread Calvin Spealman
. snip -- is a good way to control redundancy factor And sometimes someone skips the original(s), and the later msgs become interesting, and someone needs to catch up. Sigh, no soution is ever perfect. rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] courier-imapd with a proxy/backup server ?

2005-05-16 Thread Claudinei Matos
that arrive at my MAIN (the one at the hoster) server could be redirected to my proxy/backup server (the one at my local network) or if it could be, that the proxy/backup connect to the main server to catch all the accounts messages. I know I culd just use my local server as my MAIN MX

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting PCMCIA to work

2005-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
, and even that is PCMCIA based, so any install process where the bootrap expects to be able to read the boot media tends to fail. For instance, most floppy based installs require a second modules floppy be inserted before a PCMCIA device like a CDROM or the floppy drive can be accessed - catch 22

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Shields
That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system? On 6/2/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/2/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote: After a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-03 Thread Matt Place
Check out the forums for info on this topic. My last installed was based off this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html (info thread) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314985-highlight-emwrap.html (support thread) The main goals of this install method are: 1. Eliminate the

Re: [gentoo-user] updated gnome packages to 2.10, missing menus

2005-06-08 Thread Holly Bostick
to hook into firefox instead/as well, so I really don't need Moz hanging around with its bulky self). 3) sync and emerge gnome-light. Possibly -uD, just to make sure you catch anything that may not have been caught in the original GNOME install, and to confirm that everything that needs updating

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
the ebuild to print out warning messages, but will your cron be able to catch it? To elabrate even more: Redhat, suse and possibly other distro users can do cron upgrades, as those distros never give out in-compatible upgrades to a release. Those upgrades will wait until the next release, where

[gentoo-user] what is the best strategy for using sysklogd with iptables?

2005-11-22 Thread Rob
news system # #news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit #news.err/var/log/news/news.err #news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: sys-apps/ivman-0.5_pre2 failed.

2005-12-11 Thread Dale
Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez wrote: Dale wrote: Should I file a bug report on this? Shouldn't it catch this when I did a emerge -ep world? You know, let me know it needs a newer version and can't emerge it yet because of the dependancy. Let me know. I don't want to file one unless I

Re: [gentoo-user] IPtables question

2007-01-31 Thread Mick
change port 22 in the line above to a higher number 'free' port. Your final catch-all rule at the bottom of your iptables will drop any packets (on any port) from hosts other than the clients you specified in my line above. Finally, you can repeat this in your router's firewall rules, assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

2007-02-15 Thread Mick
extended partition and the desired number and sizes of logical partitions, reboot with the LiveCD, create a new fs type on each of your new partitions and untar back your old partition. There's a catch. Your first new logical partition will need to be at least as large as the data you had in your

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/binutils?? [SOLVED]

2007-03-07 Thread Alex Schuster
this on my system too.. I assume you just didn't manage to grep the right files... Well, a grep -r app-text/binutils /var/cache/edb/ should catch all of them. # grep app-text/binutils /var/cache/edb/dep/$(portageq portdir)/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 [...] ppc? ( =app-text/binutils-2.17 ) ppc64

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Dale
Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Even though I would like to see semi-annual releases, I can also understand the effort that has to go into making it happen. You would have to catch everything just right to make it worthwhile. Example, it is time for a new release and gcc is almost ready

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
. Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I had to reemerge koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It catches changed versions, but if a lib is recompiled because of an -r update and there are symbol problems, revdep will not see them... I had

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
also using vixie cron). I'm going to try to debug this with you, so just to throw a couple of things out there: 1) Are you editing the users crontab directly or are you using crontab -e ? Using the builtin crontab edit will catch errors which would prevent execution... Yes, crontab -e. 2

[gentoo-user] kalarm still broken -- revdep-rebuild fails; need mass unmerge of old KDE things

2006-06-10 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
revdep-rebuild, which can catch some of those odd dependency thingies.It reported a bunch of problems with KDE itself. Mostly with old versions,so I'd like to unmerge them. But I'm a bit unsure how to do that. Do I have tounmerge the component packages one by one, or is there some way to name all

Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice

2006-11-29 Thread David Blamire-Brown
ever mentioned. Is there some special reason for this? For example, is it activelly maintained? Is it missing some particular feature? It looks nice enough, but is there some catch? Another vote for Opera here. I'm running 9.02 at home. A few observations from my set-up, although they could

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig - SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

2006-12-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
: Someone else broadcasts to 192.168.1.255. Question: Which of these addresses should catch it? One? All? All of course, it is a broadcast after all :) I was taught that configurations of multiple-ip-per-net should look like: config_eth0=( 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 23:01 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: The only last thing I could suggest is running lsof to see what files are being accessed when you start the net.eth1 script. I tried lsof, but is there a possibility to run it constantly or for a specified time to catch

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Grant
the night before. Could the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop wasn't running ssh all night, or would it catch up now that ssh is running? The laptop doesn't run sshd and X is not working so I can't make a comparison of the data on the two systems. - Grant On 1/25/07

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftp .vs. ftpbase WTF??

2005-06-29 Thread Holly Bostick
not with --deep and probably not world (as world will likely re-initiate the conflict). But if there are other things on the list that you want to update, you can of course do that, and you can of course add any new apps that might catch your fancy. And some 5-10 minutes of looking at the information

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-19 Thread Tony Davison
-update option 5 ? There was a thread about this a while back, basically the new base-layouts move some of the init scripts to /etc/conf.d and can screw up networking if not properly configured. Might be, although I use cfg-update, which I usually catch that stuff. I got it going yest. found

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa build failure

2009-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
catch his attention but I ll save that for later. Cheers, Mark Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Philip Webb
it. However, unlike a dog, you can catch up after a long absence: I've just finished updating the system in my stand-by box, which had hardly been touched since 0809, but everything's ok now. I've watched Gentoo plummet in the popularity ratings, eg at distrowatch. It got a lot of attention from

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
home directory (primarily all the config files), aterm, firefox, a few other common tools I use, and the libraries they were using on my system while logging in. All of my applications were starting in no time at all. The catch... I took the brute force approach, rather than using an add-on tool

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Joshua Murphy
. The catch... I took the brute force approach, rather than using an add-on tool to automagically choose what to prefetch for me. There are also setting in the bootscripts that, if you're not already using them, will make use of at least a little, using tmpfs here and there, and also just putting

Re: [gentoo-user] Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

2009-11-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
upgraded to glibc-2.11 Make sure you file bug reports on these. The programs are probably doing buggy things that glibc used to be rather forgiving about. I believe in 2.11 they added extra checks to the memory management used by C++ programs, though I don't know specifics. This would catch

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
recall. Or was it 'delay secs' or 'time secs' ? This was meant for the hardware to catch its breath so to speak and allow the system to find the SD card. This was about the same time I noticed that SD support was missing from the kernel. So maybe it was the the delay I added to that script, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Most all KDE 4 emerges fail. Cmake is common.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale
/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1.ebuild install ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1.ebuild qmerge ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-4.3.3-r1.ebuild clean Very odd that revdep-rebuild doesn't catch the libphonon linking errors... :( -James I'll give that a try. I started

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)

2010-02-20 Thread ubiquitous1980
in the above config file is blanked, along with the other specification data. Which unless you edit the file whilst not logged into KDE4, creates a catch 22. You try to select BBC in menu, then edit the file, then when you try to select the entry again in the plasmoid, it will not find the locality. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Dale
. If you are talking about your packages being sane. That should catch anything that has broken links or something else that leads to a package needing to be recompiled. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, revdep-rebuild is currently running! :) This was the only tool I knew before posting my

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-10 Thread Harry Putnam
way. Further; cvs -n update 2er (redirect stder to ./er) Doesn't put anything in ./er However cvs -n update 1out (redirect stdout to ./out) Does catch the output I'm after and leave out stderr. (as one would expect) So, again, apparently I've lost the ability to trim out stderr

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

2010-04-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
-drivers, all my updates have been successful. Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until the nvidia-drivers catch up. I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and have yet to find a solution. My Gentoo installs are working just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
.d Writing Init Scripts I find two comments criticizing this approach 1. You can also use the * glob [argument to before] to catch all services in the same runlevel, although this isn't advisable. 2. Note: Make sure that --exec actually calls a service and not just a shell script

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Andrea Conti
. Doing a fsck on the copy will probably fix that, but you risk losing or corrupting data. And no, hashing as described in the previous post will *not* catch any differences in this case, as the source hash is computed from what is read during the copy (which, barring hardware problems, is what gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Mick
through copy, you risk ending up with inconsistencies in the filesystem metadata. Doing a fsck on the copy will probably fix that, but you risk losing or corrupting data. And no, hashing as described in the previous post will *not* catch any differences in this case, as the source hash

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
. Naturally there is no way to know what would have happened if I did it some other way but flameeyes' way worked for me. Now to go catch up on all the emails I got. X would not start during the upgrade. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
ATI is MUCH more mature and ATI/AMD gives out documentation and also develops - work is going very well, but will take time for 3d to catch up. Still for OSS - ATI. The closed source drivers of nvidia are much better (very fast match new kernels and Xorg releases) than the closed source drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Hartman
sometimes. This is annoying because after a reboot I usually want to catch up on mail, rss feeds and fire up VirtualBox. So nepomuk is just wasting my time at this point. My /guess/ is that it scans every time you restart to be sure nothing changed while it was shutdown. It doesn't know if you've

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-27 Thread Mick
obvious to make the 2.6.35 series work with my boxen? OK, there's so many possibilities for what causes this. Basic confusion ensues... 1) When booting, if you look carefully, is the initial kernel seeing _any_ disks? Sometimes they fly bye and are hard to catch. If it is then is it showing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cgroupd really do work!

2010-12-04 Thread William Kenworthy
a very short delay while the pages were retrieved (mainly noticable on firefox), but the before/after impression was the difference between a very short pause and what used to happen - time to take the hand off the mouse and lean back in the chair and wait for FF to catch up. Keep in mind

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Dale
catfish too. I saw it on TV and I wish I could catch one of those, even if I would need a new rod. A fish that size would likely break my rod unless I was using the deep sea fishing rod. Those fish weigh 30 lbs and some LOTS more. It's like pulling a teenager out of the water. O_O They are big

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread Joost Roeleveld
do fish with their hands, usually very large catfish too. I saw it on TV and I wish I could catch one of those, even if I would need a new rod. A fish that size would likely break my rod unless I was using the deep sea fishing rod. Those fish weigh 30 lbs and some LOTS more. It's like pulling

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
to catch severe errors before committing changes and additions, and all of them rely on unstable users finding other oddities and bugs. flameeyes gave some hints and clues into how this works on his blog recently: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/05/25/psa-packages-failing-to-install-with-new

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Knecht
and guess. Some think more than others before they guess, they should all do some basic tests to catch severe errors before committing changes and additions, and all of them rely on unstable users finding other oddities and bugs. flameeyes gave some hints and clues into how this works on his blog

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Dale
to be sure. I use modules-rebuild -X rebuild to catch all the modules I need to rebuild as well as a few applications that over the years had problems with kernel or xorg-server changes. My list of modules apps now numbers about 8 and I know virtualbox-modules is part of that list. None the less

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
. The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of stuff to document

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
will catch those anyway. Until recently I skipped the --library step exactly because I knew revdep-rebuild will find and fix the broken packages after I delete the old library. So, why bother with the --library step, right? However. A few weeks ago I got caught when I deleted one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
some things. ebuilds sometimes issue messages to check just the libraries known to have been updated, but a full revdep-rebuild after an update will catch those anyway. Until recently I skipped the --library step exactly because I knew revdep-rebuild will find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
ajglap gottlieb # revdep-rebuild; revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' SNIP Is there no automated way to catch these? --library expects an argument; how do I know which libraries to feed it? My question exactly. It's not likeyou can look at just names of libraries as I think

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