Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly deprecate the idiocies over time. Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all adverbs before their verbs, or that inserts a comma between a verb and its object? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:03:13 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 21:17:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: In theory you could pollute English with decent German grammar and slowly deprecate the idiocies over time. Is that the sort of decent grammar that insists on putting all adverbs before their verbs, or that inserts a comma between a verb and its object? There's nothing wrong with either of those things, a language is built by convention after all. If you know the convention, you can use the language. And German has no need to use the English conventions. But German is consistent. English is not consistent. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error
Alan McKinnon schrieb: But German is consistent. English is not consistent. I am not so sure about German being consistent. As a fact often a lot of information is lost during translation. This is more likely the main problem. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error
KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: But German is consistent. English is not consistent. I am not so sure about German being consistent. As a fact often a lot of information is lost during translation. This is more likely the main problem. Let me try to be precise: The english language is using a context sensitive semantics, the german language is not. If gettext() based translations are used with Enlish as base lanuage, the need for knowing the exact context us the string use is needed. If you use German as base language, this kind of problems is not present. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Edit Menus
dhk wrote:
Anton Bobov wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:13:04 -0400, dhk wrote:
After the last update when I got Gnome 2.26 Most everything the the main
application menu was gone. I right clicked on the main app panel and
selected Edit Menus and after making a few changes I pressed Revert
and now Edit Menus doesn't work at all. The window doesn't even come up.
How can I fix this? Does anyone know the command line for Edit Menus?
To run Gnome menu editor try
$ alacarte
Also see in ~/.config/menus for menu backups. You can replace current
menu (applications.menu) with older file (applications.menu.undo-*).
And read Gnome 2.26 Upgrade Guide section about menu file-collision:
http://gnome.gentoo.org/howtos/gnome-2.26-upgrade.xml
Great Thanks
When I run alacarte I get the following error.
$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 36, in module
main()
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py, line
48, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
42, in __loadMenus
self.applications.path = os.path.join(util.getUserMenuPath(),
self.applications.tree.get_menu_file())
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py, line 65, in join
if b.startswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
I've run python-updater and there's no change.
Is this a corrupt program?
Thanks,
dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM
Alan McKinnon schrieb: you could regularly measure your disk speed by coping huge amounts of data to a second ram-disk, and back. Then you have a good knowledge of read and write speed of your hdd :-) Ah, yes, that's a serious thing to do ;-) I often use the ram disk for creating iso images before burning them to dvd/cd. This is a lot faster than doing this on an hdd. Good idea. Will try that now as I got my 8 gigs already ... Just make sure the total amount of data is significantly larger than the amount of RAM, to negate the effect of in-RAM caching. A CD .iso for example can easily be cached in RAM as well as have the copy too. The write to hdd will be almost instant the second time :-) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] What is a packet? Was: Checksum error
Neil Walker wrote: Dale wrote: Living on disability sucks, So why do you? If the skin doesn't bother them, the income part does. You really don't have to be living like that if you don't want to. It's entirely your choice. Drop me an email at neil-at-neiljw.net if you want to change things. :) Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com It's a lot more complicated than that. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Edit Menus
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote:
When I run alacarte I get the following error.
$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 36, in module
main()
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py, line
48, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
42, in __loadMenus
self.applications.path = os.path.join(util.getUserMenuPath(),
self.applications.tree.get_menu_file())
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py, line 65, in join
if b.startswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
I've run python-updater and there's no change.
Is this a corrupt program?
Which version of x11-misc/alacarte you use? See bug 282337:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282337
--
Anton
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Edit Menus
Anton Bobov wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:58:56 -0400, dhk wrote:
When I run alacarte I get the following error.
$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 36, in module
main()
File /usr/bin/alacarte, line 32, in main
app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py, line
48, in __init__
self.editor = MenuEditor()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
36, in __init__
self.__loadMenus()
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py, line
42, in __loadMenus
self.applications.path = os.path.join(util.getUserMenuPath(),
self.applications.tree.get_menu_file())
File /usr/lib64/python2.6/posixpath.py, line 65, in join
if b.startswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
I've run python-updater and there's no change.
Is this a corrupt program?
Which version of x11-misc/alacarte you use? See bug 282337:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282337
I'm using alacarte 0.12.1, and that looks like the bug. Now to fix it.
Thanks.
[gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) (the entire output from emerge world is below EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --with-bdeps=y) I read the news article and was directed to http://www.linuxized.com/p192, which said to add dbus and qt3support to my USE flags. I already had dbus and adding qt3support did not change the result. The std handbook recommendation is to remove qt-dbus, but the news article suggests this one is more complicated. Should I perhaps mask qu-dbus-4.5.2 and if so do I then remove the mask when the rest has installed. This is a stable x86 box. thanks, allan ajglap gottlieb # emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE=dbus ppds qt3 scanner snmp -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -qt4 [ebuild U ] dev-python/imaging-1.1.6-r1 [1.1.6] USE=X scanner tk -doc -examples 0 kB [nomerge ] gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.24.3 USE=-eds -spell -test [nomerge ] dev-python/gnome-desktop-python-2.24.1 USE=-debug [nomerge ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-base-2.24.1 USE=-debug [nomerge ]dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1-r1 USE=X -doc -examples [ebuild U ] dev-python/numpy-1.3.0-r1 [1.3.0] USE=-lapack -test 0 kB [nomerge ] www-client/epiphany-2.26.3-r1 USE=python -avahi -debug -doc -networkmanager -spell [nomerge ] dev-python/gnome-python-2.22.3 [nomerge ] dev-python/libgnome-python-2.22.3 USE=-debug -examples [nomerge ]gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.24.1 USE=-doc [nomerge ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.24.1 USE=esd -debug -doc [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gvfs-1.0.3-r13 [1.0.3-r2] USE=gnome hal -archive -avahi -bash-completion -bluetooth -cdda -debug -doc -fuse -gnome-keyring -gphoto2 -samba 0 kB [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1 USE=iconv -debug -pch [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1) [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 USE=iconv qt3support sqlite -debug -firebird -mysql -odbc -pch -postgres [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 USE=iconv qt3support sqlite -debug -firebird -mysql -odbc -pch -postgres [nomerge ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2 [4.5.1] USE=iconv -debug -pch [blocks b ]x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2) [uninstall] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1 USE=accessibility -debug -kde -pch -phonon [blocks b ]x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2) [uninstall] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1 USE=iconv qt3support sqlite -debug -firebird -mysql -odbc -pch -postgres [blocks b ]x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2 [4.5.1] USE=iconv -debug -pch 113,297 kB [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2) [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2 [4.5.1] USE=accessibility cups dbus glib
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) (the entire output from emerge world is below EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --with-bdeps=y) I read the news article and was directed to http://www.linuxized.com/p192, which said to add dbus and qt3support to my USE flags. I already had dbus and adding qt3support did not change the result. The std handbook recommendation is to remove qt-dbus, but the news article suggests this one is more complicated. Should I perhaps mask qu-dbus-4.5.2 and if so do I then remove the mask when the rest has installed. This is a stable x86 box. qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you upgrade, it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible packages installed at the same time. Either: unmerge all of qt emerge all of qt or: upgrade to masked portage-2.2 which can deal with such things easily. Note that you will likely need to rebuild kdelibs and other stuff after building qt. There's an elog about it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg + nvidia driver problems
After the upgrade and completly remove xorg.conf (hal does all the job) my xorg server works fine again... it has no GLX extension, and maybe other modules are out, but meanwhile I can use nvidia driver... Cheers, -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) (the entire output from emerge world is below EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --with-bdeps=y) I read the news article and was directed to http://www.linuxized.com/p192, which said to add dbus and qt3support to my USE flags. I already had dbus and adding qt3support did not change the result. The std handbook recommendation is to remove qt-dbus, but the news article suggests this one is more complicated. Should I perhaps mask qu-dbus-4.5.2 and if so do I then remove the mask when the rest has installed. This is a stable x86 box. qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you upgrade, it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible packages installed at the same time. Either: unmerge all of qt emerge all of qt or: upgrade to masked portage-2.2 which can deal with such things easily. Note that you will likely need to rebuild kdelibs and other stuff after building qt. There's an elog about it. It may be more than just likely. I had to rebuild about all of KDE 3 and a huge part of KDE 4. Since it was so many packages, it could easily have been them all. Funny thing is, I already had my USE flags set correctly. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: qt-dbus blocker
On 13.10.2009 14:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) (the entire output from emerge world is below EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --with-bdeps=y) I read the news article and was directed to http://www.linuxized.com/p192, which said to add dbus and qt3support to my USE flags. I already had dbus and adding qt3support did not change the result. The std handbook recommendation is to remove qt-dbus, but the news article suggests this one is more complicated. Should I perhaps mask qu-dbus-4.5.2 and if so do I then remove the mask when the rest has installed. I just solved a similar block, also involving PyQt4, by adding dev-python/PyQt4 -dbus to my /etc/portage/package.use. (I also added -qt3support to USE in /etc/make.conf to get rid of the mess where some packages have that defined, and some not.) But I am already at qt-*-4.5.2 the upgrade to which is a longer procedure as Alan points out. Cheers, Peter. P.S.: Sorry, if this appears twice. I sent a similar reply half an hour ago and it hasn't shown up yet...
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
At Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you upgrade, it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible packages installed at the same time. Either: unmerge all of qt emerge all of qt or: upgrade to masked portage-2.2 which can deal with such things easily. Note that you will likely need to rebuild kdelibs and other stuff after building qt. There's an elog about it. I do not have kde installed (I use gnome). I just did an eix --installed kde to confirm. I have 10 qt packages (confirmed with eix --installed qt) Seven begin with qt- and are at 4.5.1 with 4.5.2 available. The other three are qt PyQt PyQt4. None of the seven are in world. Have I understood correctly the procedure to be 1. Unmerge these 7 (*not* 10) 2. emerge --update --ask --newuse --deep --tree -v --with-bdeps=y world 3. depclean and revdep-rebuild thanks to alan dale and peter for their help. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 14:48:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just started getting this blocker yesterday (was away for the weekend) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) (the entire output from emerge world is below EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --with-bdeps=y) I read the news article and was directed to http://www.linuxized.com/p192, which said to add dbus and qt3support to my USE flags. I already had dbus and adding qt3support did not change the result. The std handbook recommendation is to remove qt-dbus, but the news article suggests this one is more complicated. Should I perhaps mask qu-dbus-4.5.2 and if so do I then remove the mask when the rest has installed. This is a stable x86 box. qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you upgrade, it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible packages installed at the same time. Either: unmerge all of qt emerge all of qt or: upgrade to masked portage-2.2 which can deal with such things easily. Note that you will likely need to rebuild kdelibs and other stuff after building qt. There's an elog about it. Hi, I am running stable portage as well and it takes good care of the blocks with the b. Really the only one you have to take care of manually is the one with the B. Do you have the old qt-4.* meta package installed? Are you masking or keywording any qt stuff? Maybe masking qt-dbus-4.5.2 as you suggested is a good idea. That way you will get rid of all the b stuff. Then you can take a deeper look on what is left. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Greets, gentoo-users, as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for the old 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs. OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ... I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use of the memory. I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance, yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM. But are there any other things I might forget? Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it? I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-) Thanks a lot, Stefan Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category. There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a little less. Actually shaved a few seconds off of my desktop's bootup once upon a time (3.0 GHz core 2 duo on 4GB of ram, which had excessive eyecandy while remaining fairly lightweight). The second use I put it through, and this one just a little more long-term useful, was preloading my wm, most of my 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 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 /tmp and /var/tmp onto tmpfs (outside of building things like open office, this tends to work well). Oh, and if you really do want to use up all that ram build openoffice in tmpfs... if it could use all 8GB for files only, it might actually work out, I know it kills off when you only have part of 4GB to feed it. [1] artifice ~ # busybox readahead BusyBox v1.14.2 (2009-10-13 06:37:22) multi-call binary Usage: readahead [FILE]... Preload FILE(s) in RAM cache so that subsequent reads for thosefiles do not block on disk I/O -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running. I presume saving a session is done by logging out. I have already done that, leaving KDE without any mail client running. On logging in again, kmail is started. The KDE session manager doesn't appear to have any option to save a session, but it does have a way to exclude applications from saved sessions. I'll try excluding kmail and then logging out. No change--KDE starts kmail even when logging out with neither kmail or kontact running. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
Am Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009 07:56:20 schrieb Jim Cunning: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93203 Bye... Dirk
[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Ok, emerge -e world completed successfully. Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica... On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that. As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages and then use emerge --depclean to prune out the danglers. As someone who has never done this before, I got two questions: 1. The easy one: where is the world file located these days? 2. The hard one: which packages do I remove from the world file to clean out anything X-related? I read of a suggestion to remove x11-base/xorg-x11 and the rest would follow from depclean... Is that too optimistic? Thanks, Denis
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM
Joshua Murphy schrieb: Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category. ;-) There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a little less. Actually shaved a few seconds off of my desktop's bootup once upon a time (3.0 GHz core 2 duo on 4GB of ram, which had excessive eyecandy while remaining fairly lightweight). The second use I put it through, and this one just a little more long-term useful, was preloading my wm, most of my 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 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 /tmp and /var/tmp onto tmpfs (outside of building things like open office, this tends to work well). Oh, and if you really do want to use up all that ram build openoffice in tmpfs... if it could use all 8GB for files only, it might actually work out, I know it kills off when you only have part of 4GB to feed it. [1] artifice ~ # busybox readahead BusyBox v1.14.2 (2009-10-13 06:37:22) multi-call binary Usage: readahead [FILE]... Preload FILE(s) in RAM cache so that subsequent reads for thosefiles do not block on disk I/O I use sys-apps/preload ... is this comparable? I don't need to speed up boot-times as I use suspend-to-ram on my main workstation as well, so I don't care much about booting ... Thanks anyway for sharing! Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Denis wrote: Ok, emerge -e world completed successfully. Bad news: X still crashes when scrolling in Mathematica... On to the downgrade of xcb then, as much as I'd rather not do that. As suggested, I would edit the world file to remove main X packages and then use emerge --depclean to prune out the danglers. As someone who has never done this before, I got two questions: 1. The easy one: where is the world file located these days? 2. The hard one: which packages do I remove from the world file to clean out anything X-related? I read of a suggestion to remove x11-base/xorg-x11 and the rest would follow from depclean... Is that too optimistic? Thanks, Denis 1: /var/lib/portage/world 2: The file is in alphabetical order nowadays. The X stuff should be at the bottom of the file. Keep in mind tho, if you have a GUI such as KDE installed, that will pull the X stuff as a dependency. Things like Seamonkey may even pull in some X stuff. After all, don't you have to have a GUI for things like Seamonkey to work? Not on your list but if you have done a emerge -e world, I'm not real sure what this will accomplish. That should have recompiled EVERYTHING on your system already. I would be looking for a mailing list for the software to see if they know about this issue and have a fix or if they can give some ideas or even commands to run to help them fix it. I'm not real sure that this is going to help any at all. That help? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which
require the older Qt libraries, or at least that's what I understand.
Below is the emerge (only partly, as it wants to update a lot more
other packages which are not relevant).
It seems to me like a pain in the ass, and usually a source to broken
system, to remove the older Qt libraries manually.
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2
(x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2,
x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 is
blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 is
blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2
is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 is
blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 is
blocking x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r is blocking
x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1-r is blocking
x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.2 is
blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2,
x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1-r is blocking
x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1-r is blocking
x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
[blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r
(x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1,
x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1)
Total: 420 packages (19 upgrades, 174 new, 141 in new slots, 86
reinstalls), Size of downloads: 807,111 kB
Conflict: 16 blocks (16 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2', 'merge') pulled in by
=x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1:4
Re: [gentoo-user] qt-dbus blocker
This regard that last one, I was just being stupid. Portage handles that just fine, I just forgot to add the --upgrade flag On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Yoav Luft yoav.l...@gmail.com wrote: As with me, the problem is appearently with certain packages which require the older Qt libraries, or at least that's what I understand. Below is the emerge (only partly, as it wants to update a lot more other packages which are not relevant). It seems to me like a pain in the ass, and usually a source to broken system, to remove the older Qt libraries manually. [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.2 (x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.2 is blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) [blocks B ] x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r (x11-libs/qt-test-4.5.1-r is blocking x11-libs/qt-svg-4.5.1-r1, x11-libs/qt-script-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.1, x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.1) Total: 420 packages (19 upgrades, 174 new, 141 in new slots, 86 reinstalls),
[gentoo-user] setxkbmap does not work after upgrading to KDE4
After upgrading to KDE4 the other day my keyboard mapping stopped working. I traced it back to setxkbmap. Manually entering setxkbmap (with extra verbosity) gives the following: $ setxkbmap -model logicd -layout ch -variant de_nodeadkeys -v 10 Setting verbose level to 10 locale is C Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard model Using command line, ignoring X server Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout Using command line, ignoring X server Applied rules from evdev: model: logicd layout: ch variant:de_nodeadkeys Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: evdev+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols:pc+ch(de_nodeadkeys)+inet(evdev) geometry: pc(pc104) Error loading new keyboard description Any suggestion on what could be wrong? Regards, -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. Here are my USE flags: X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imlib java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex ldap libnotify libwww lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn openal opengl oss pdf plotutils png ppds preview-latex pstricks qt3support qt4 quicktime rtc samba science sdl sensord smp sndfile spell sse sse2 svga swat tcl tetex tiff tk truetype tta usb wavpack winbind wmp xcb xine xml yahoo -dri -isdnlog -pppd When world is edited, should I leave make.conf be or do I also need to remove all X-related USE flags from there? Here is my world file. I did not include anything under x11-* for brewity. I marked everything I am planning to remove with a preceding - Could someone look this over, please, to make sure I didn't select anything critical? I did use equery depends and some common sense, but I could use a sanity check! - app-admin/emacs-updater app-admin/syslog-ng - app-editors/emacs - app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo - app-office/abiword - app-office/abiword-plugins app-portage/gentoolkit app-portage/mirrorselect app-portage/portage-utils app-portage/ufed app-shells/bash-completion - app-text/acroread - app-text/djvu - app-text/enchant - app-text/ghostscript-gpl - app-text/gnome-doc-utils - app-text/gtkspell - app-text/gv - app-text/hunspell - app-text/iso-codes - app-text/libpaper - app-text/libwpd app-text/poppler-data app-text/poppler-utils - app-text/ps2eps - app-text/psutils - app-text/rarian - app-text/rman - app-text/scrollkeeper - app-text/scrollkeeper-dtd app-text/sgml-common - app-text/t1utils - app-text/texi2html - app-text/texlive - app-text/wv - app-vim/fluxbox-syntax dev-java/javatoolkit dev-java/sun-jdk dev-lang/tcl dev-libs/dbus-glib dev-libs/libtasn1 dev-libs/mpfr dev-perl/XML-Parser dev-python/pygobject dev-python/pygtk - dev-tex/latex-beamer - dev-tex/mh - dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra - dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra dev-util/pkgconfig - gnome-base/gdm - gnome-base/libgnomecanvas - media-fonts/corefonts - media-fonts/dejavu - media-fonts/encodings - media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi - media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi - media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi - media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi - media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1 - media-fonts/font-alias - media-fonts/font-arabic-misc - media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi - media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi - media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi - media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi - media-fonts/font-bh-ttf - media-fonts/font-bh-type1 - media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi - media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi - media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo - media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1 - media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic - media-fonts/font-cursor-misc - media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc - media-fonts/font-dec-misc - media-fonts/font-ibm-type1 - media-fonts/font-isas-misc - media-fonts/font-jis-misc - media-fonts/font-micro-misc - media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic - media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic - media-fonts/font-misc-meltho - media-fonts/font-misc-misc - media-fonts/font-mutt-misc - media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc - media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic - media-fonts/font-sony-misc - media-fonts/font-sun-misc - media-fonts/font-util - media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic - media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 - media-fonts/freefonts - media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std - media-fonts/intlfonts - media-fonts/terminus-font - media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera - media-fonts/unifont - media-gfx/gimp - media-gfx/gqview - media-gfx/imagemagick - media-gfx/jpeg2ps - media-gfx/sam2p - media-gfx/transfig - media-gfx/xfig - media-gfx/xv media-libs/alsa-lib media-libs/audiofile - media-libs/babl media-libs/flac - media-libs/fontconfig - media-libs/freeglut - media-libs/freetype - media-libs/ftgl - media-libs/gd - media-libs/gegl - media-libs/giflib - media-libs/glew - media-libs/gst-plugins-base - media-libs/gst-plugins-good - media-libs/gstreamer - media-libs/imlib2 - media-libs/jasper - media-libs/jbigkit - media-libs/jpeg - media-libs/lcms media-libs/libart_lgpl media-libs/libcddb - media-libs/libexif media-libs/libid3tag media-libs/libmad - media-libs/libmng media-libs/libogg media-libs/libpng media-libs/libsdl media-libs/libsndfile media-libs/libvorbis - media-libs/mesa - media-libs/netpbm media-libs/openjpeg - media-libs/pdflib - media-libs/plotutils media-libs/raptor media-libs/svgalib -media-libs/t1lib media-libs/tiff - media-libs/vigra media-plugins/alsa-plugins media-sound/alsa-utils media-sound/asunder media-sound/audacious media-sound/cdparanoia media-sound/cdplay media-sound/wavpack - media-video/nvidia-settings net-analyzer/netselect net-fs/samba - net-im/pidgin - net-irc/xchat net-misc/dhcpcd - net-print/cups perl-core/IO-Compress - sci-misc/qcad - sci-visualization/gnuplot
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running. I presume saving a session is done by logging out. no, you presume wrong. Open the menu, go to the logout tab, there is a 'Save Session' option, click that. Hmmm. KDE 4.3.2 menu shows tabs for: Favorites, Applications, Computer, Recently Used, Leave. No logout tab. The Leave tab shows: Logout, Lock, Switch User, Suspend to disk, Restart, Shutdown. No Save Session option -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote: Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. Here are my USE flags: X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imlib java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex ldap libnotify libwww lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn openal opengl oss pdf plotutils png ppds preview-latex pstricks qt3support qt4 quicktime rtc samba science sdl sensord smp sndfile spell sse sse2 svga swat tcl tetex tiff tk truetype tta usb wavpack winbind wmp xcb xine xml yahoo -dri -isdnlog -pppd At a minum you'll need to remove X cairo firefox gtk motif opengl pdf qt3support qt4 truetype scb There will be others, that's just obvious ones from a quick scan through. Also remove similarly obvious stuff from package.use The as Dale said, manually edit your world file to remove everything that is obviously X related. But first, verify that emerge -avuND world want to merge nothing, otherwise --depclean will complain. Then the fun starts: emerge -a --depclean and let it do whatever it wants. emerge -pvuNDt world and look closely at what X stuff it wants to pull in. See if it's a dependency thing or a USE flag thing, and deal with it. Eventually, emerge -pvuND world will not want to remerge anything, only rebuild stuff due to changed USE flags. --depclean again, rinse and repeat as many times as you have to (probably lots). When you have done all this, and it will take a day or three, you will no doubt realise that it was not worth the effort and you should have just reinstalled without X, or fixed the underlying problem. Excising X is like downgrading to stable from unstable - not worth the effort. Sorry, but them's the breaks :-) When world is edited, should I leave make.conf be or do I also need to remove all X-related USE flags from there? Remove the flags from make.conf and also from package.use -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? Rebuild sunbird? Stuff it links do has likely changed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? Rebuild sunbird? Stuff it links do has likely changed. I did that--shown above--with no change in final result. I did a 'revdep- rebuild' (twice), and both times only app-emulation/emul-linux-x86- soundlibs-20080418 was rebuilt. Still no difference. Now--three hours later--sunbird starts fine. I didn't deliberately do anything more after the revdep-build's. Anyway, it works now. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
Jim Cunning wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running. I presume saving a session is done by logging out. no, you presume wrong. Open the menu, go to the logout tab, there is a 'Save Session' option, click that. Hmmm. KDE 4.3.2 menu shows tabs for: Favorites, Applications, Computer, Recently Used, Leave. No logout tab. The Leave tab shows: Logout, Lock, Switch User, Suspend to disk, Restart, Shutdown. No Save Session option I use this feature. You have to go to KDE session manager and turn it on before it appears in the menu. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?
I've been having some issues myself (mythtv manages to mess up my screen
royally, I need to switch to a text virtual console and back to X to
make the screen legible after viewing a TV-recording in myth). I just
noticed that the version of the headers for xcb do not match the version
on libxcb itself. Could this be the cause of my (and Daves) problems? I
have libxcb 1.4, but headers version 1.5, no 1.4 available for the
headers. (running a new sync of my portage tree now, just in case I've
missed something)
Viz:
1:medisin ~ # eix xcb
[I] x11-libs/libxcb
Available versions: 1.0 1.1 ~1.1.90.1 1.4-r1 {debug doc selinux}
Installed versions: 1.4-r1(22:28:37 10/11/09)(-debug -doc -selinux)
Homepage:http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
Description: X C-language Bindings library
[I] x11-libs/xcb-util
Available versions: 0.3.3 ~0.3.4 ~0.3.5 0.3.6 {debug test}
Installed versions: 0.3.6(18:11:17 10/08/09)(-debug -test)
Homepage:http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
Description: X C-language Bindings sample implementations
* x11-misc/xcb
Available versions: 2.4 {motif}
Homepage:http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/xcb.html
Description: Marc Lehmann's improved X Cut Buffers
[I] x11-proto/xcb-proto
Available versions: 1.0 1.1 ~1.2 1.5
Installed versions: 1.5(05:16:09 10/06/09)
Homepage:http://xcb.freedesktop.org/
Description: X C-language Bindings protocol headers
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[gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'
Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads: ath5k_tasklet_rx40x1fd/0539[ath5k] and ends with: Kernel panic -- not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out what I did or neglected to do prior to this but am drawing a blank. Running 2.6.29-r5. Never had this problem before. '$cat /proc/acpi/net/wireless' indicates that wlan0 is configured. Anybody have any ideas? Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads: ath5k_tasklet_rx40x1fd/0539[ath5k] and ends with: Kernel panic -- not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out what I did or neglected to do prior to this but am drawing a blank. Running 2.6.29-r5. Never had this problem before. '$cat /proc/acpi/net/wireless' indicates that wlan0 is configured. Anybody have any ideas? Maxim Maybe you can try to use newer drivers; if you don't want to update the entire kernel you can build just the latest wireless drivers from: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/stable/
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Joshua Murphy schrieb: Non-ricer? Well... this sorta breaks that category. ;-) There's a rather handy tool[1] already in the stage3, I've used it alongside bootchart to force-load everything needed into ram during boot, before it's needed, so execution gets held up by i/o just a little less. Actually shaved a few seconds off of my desktop's bootup once upon a time (3.0 GHz core 2 duo on 4GB of ram, which had excessive eyecandy while remaining fairly lightweight). The second use I put it through, and this one just a little more long-term useful, was preloading my wm, most of my 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 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 /tmp and /var/tmp onto tmpfs (outside of building things like open office, this tends to work well). Oh, and if you really do want to use up all that ram build openoffice in tmpfs... if it could use all 8GB for files only, it might actually work out, I know it kills off when you only have part of 4GB to feed it. [1] artifice ~ # busybox readahead BusyBox v1.14.2 (2009-10-13 06:37:22) multi-call binary Usage: readahead [FILE]... Preload FILE(s) in RAM cache so that subsequent reads for thosefiles do not block on disk I/O I use sys-apps/preload ... is this comparable? I don't need to speed up boot-times as I use suspend-to-ram on my main workstation as well, so I don't care much about booting ... Thanks anyway for sharing! Stefan Yep! sys-apps/preload goes a long way to automate what I did with busybox's readahead tool, and I'm about 99% certain they both make the same system call to do the work anyways... it's all a matter of how where they get their list of *what* to fetch... I, as I said, took the brute force approach and made my list by hand. ;-) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden. The wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a terminal without error. I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting. The twinkle icon shows up in the center of the screen instead of the tray, and it has its own panel button which is separate from the main app's panel button. Does anyone know what could be wrong? I didn't understand very well what happen with you, possible because my bad english vocabulary, but have you tried run wicd-client with --no-tray parameter ? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden. The wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a terminal without error. I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting. The twinkle icon shows up in the center of the screen instead of the tray, and it has its own panel button which is separate from the main app's panel button. Does anyone know what could be wrong? I didn't understand very well what happen with you, possible because my bad english vocabulary, but have you tried run wicd-client with --no-tray parameter ? Another guess, when I upgraded to xfce 4.6 it was necessarily emerge x11-themes/tango-icon-theme and set xfce to use it. This package fixed every icon problemthat I had in xfce menu. - Grant
how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
I cleared everything X related from my box, and it is still alive and well :-) Now, as I was explaining in my previous thread, I would like to re-install X and all related apps, but forcing the older libxcb version. After I upgraded to libxcb 1.4 a few days ago, my X was unstable and kept crashing while scrolling in Mathematica, so I wanted to clear everything X out, start from scratch, and revert to my original X configuration. Here is the new problem. In my package.mask, I specify: =x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 =x11-base/xorg-server-1.6 =x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 My USE is now: alsa ao bash-completion bzip2 cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection ieee1394 lame ldap libwww mad mmx mmxext mp3 openal oss ppds rtc smp spell sse sse2 tta usb wavpack winbind xml -dri -isdnlog -pppd So, I put in the X USE flag and attempt emerge -NDavu xorg-x11 and get !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-libs/libxcb-1.2 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/libxcb-1.4-r1 (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by x11-libs/libX11-1.2.2 [ebuild]) (dependency required by x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5 [ebuild]) (dependency required by x11-libs/libXv-1.0.4 [ebuild]) (dependency required by x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 [ebuild]) (dependency required by xorg-x11 [argument]) What gives? Am I doing something stupid (well, aside from trying to downgrade...), or is there a way for me to fix this by some keywording trickery or something to that effect? Help, please :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panics after 'ifconfig wlan0 up'
ok, found it. On the sixth I did #make menuconfig make modules_install and rebooted without any problem, everything worked as before. But I neglected to copy over the new kernel. All the fresh modules seeemed to get along fine with the stale kernel for an entire week so it never occured to me there was a problem till I tried to go mobile and the wifi module gagged. I wonder why that one was singled out. So, crisis passed. Well, until I go mobile again and try to connect. Thanks for your interest mw On 10/13/09, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Emergency here. After my eee pc boots I log in and enter '#ifconfig wlan0 up' as usual to take advantage of the free wifi at the coffee shop. Then, just before I enter the next command, the kernel panics and the console freezes. The top line of hexidecimal barf reads: ath5k_tasklet_rx40x1fd/0539[ath5k] and ends with: Kernel panic -- not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt I'm wracking my brains trying to figure out what I did or neglected to do prior to this but am drawing a blank. Running 2.6.29-r5. Never had this problem before. '$cat /proc/acpi/net/wireless' indicates that wlan0 is configured. Anybody have any ideas? Maxim Maybe you can try to use newer drivers; if you don't want to update the entire kernel you can build just the latest wireless drivers from: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/stable/
Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
Sorry, I don't tinker around with gentoo much, mostly just user :-) I got around this block so far: also masked =x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5, =x11-libs/libX11-1.2, in addition to libxcb 1.4. Reading ebuilds really helps! ha.
Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
I got around this block so far: also masked =x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5, =x11-libs/libX11-1.2, in addition to libxcb 1.4. Now I run into a bit of a problem: libX11-1.1.5 fails when compiled :-( I attached a build.log for this package... Can anyone tell me if this is fixable? Maybe some other package needs to be downgraded? The only reason why I am using 1.1.5 version is because libX11-1.2.* requires libxcb-1.2 and greater and I only have 1.1.90 as the highest before 1.4 (can I tweak the ebuild for libX11-1.2 and put xcb 1.1.90 instead of 1.2 limitation?)... I would try libX11-1.1.4, but xorg-server-1.5.3 requires 1.1.5 and above... maybe I could tweak this ebuild to accept 1.1.4 and see if that compiles? Any constructive thoughts appreciated! :-)
Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:36:18 -0400 Denis denis@gmail.com wrote: Of course, I forget to attach the file to embarrass myself to the end... Great. :-P Oh, it's not over yet! Here it is! make[1]: *** [ks_tables.h] Error 136 Any constructive thoughts appreciated! :-) Heh. Let me google that *exact error string* for you, by way of illustration... OK, so someone using Gentoo sez: Ultimately, you need to check the version of xproto that you have installed. By masking 7.0.15 and re-emerging 7.0.14, I was able to resume the emerge without any remaining libX11 errors. From: http://blog.olebox.com/tag/linux/ Cheers (and good luck), -- Michael Higgins
Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
=== On Tue, 10/13, Denis wrote: === Any constructive thoughts appreciated! :-) === It sounds to me like you are worming your way into a deeper hole. Just FYI, I went through the libxcb upgrade procedure, am running the libxcb 1.4 and latest X server, etc. and everything is working just fine. On three different machines. The close-source binaries like Mathematica are usually the problem. They almost always lag behind the current open-source offering and only support older, stable versions of libraries. So if you really want to run that I would recommend that you stick with stable arch and re-compile and/or re-install your base system. You have /home on a separate partition, right? Another possibility is that these packages usually ship with a set of libraries that the pre-load using a launcher shell script. Does it install any copies of system libraries? An alternative, albeit a heavyweight one, is to look at Mathematica's supported OS/distro list and run a virtual machine with one of those in it. You can use gentoo as your host OS. -- Keith Dart -- -- Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz ===
Re: how to force libxcb version below 1.4 when re-installing X (was: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?)
Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: Heh. Let me google that *exact error string* for you, by way of illustration... Thanks, Michael - I generally turn to google first. It's been a tough day, and I appreciate you pointing this out to me. I ran into another snag, this time with x11-libs/libXext-1.0.4 - it would not compile with x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.5. But downgrading to x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.4 fixed that! When I saw that one fail, I thought to myself this is gonna be a long night... ha. But happily, everything compiled in the end, and xorg-x11 is now installed. I will see the state of things tomorrow when I get into the office. Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: The close-source binaries like Mathematica are usually the problem. They almost always lag behind the current open-source offering and only support older, stable versions of libraries. So if you really want to run that I would recommend that you stick with stable arch and re-compile and/or re-install your base system. You have /home on a separate partition, right? Keith - thanks for the thoughts. As I reiterated before, I am not arguing that Mathematica isn't the source of the problem. Other than Mathematica crashing X, I had no other problems with X since the upgrade to libxcb-1.4 and xorg-server-1.6. So my action to downgrade and revert to the previous configuration shouldn't be taken to mean that the upgrade was crappy - it just doesn't seem to agree with the proprietary software I am currently running. I would much rather upgrade Mathematica, but that is not an option for me at this time. Thankfully, I was able to remove X and reinstall it based on the previous versions of the libraries I don't yet know whether this resolved my Mathematica issue - I will test tomorrow. But I will investigate the install script for Mathematica and see what it does. Denis
