Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 09:15:36 Steven wrote: I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package * update *

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 03:26:49 Iain Buchanan wrote: Unfortunately, that sounds all too realistic. I gave up trying to use suspend some time ago after battling with wirelss and graphics hardware that wouldn't suspend/resume reliably. But with 4G of RAM here, I find it doesn't take

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 02:04:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in @world. Could be useful if implemented

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Mariusz Ceier
W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package * update * will be

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi instead of having a dongle sticking out the side waiting to be knocked off. And how do

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:46:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: A command line argument (--force?) would be fine, but you can't complain it's annoying when you have just complained that portage doesn't do this. I didn't make that complaint... Sorry, that comment was aimed at Dale. I know you

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: The bad thing is, since python is not a system package, it doesn't even save the last compiled binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsyspkg in make.conf. It does portage but not python. That's because python is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Stefan Schulte
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Mariusz Ceier wrote: W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09:58/02/04/10, Mariusz Ceier wrote: W dniu 04.02.2010 08:15, Steven pisze: I am having a recurring error for the last few weeks revdep-rebuild -p * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: The bad thing is, since python is not a system package, it doesn't even save the last compiled binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsyspkg in make.conf. It does portage but not python. That's

[gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have to rebuild: [...] * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 .. but it fails: [...] GlobalParams.cc:2227: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 12:43:46 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have to rebuild: [...] * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 .. but it fails: [...] GlobalParams.cc:2227:

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 12:14:52 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:54 -0600, Dale wrote: The bad thing is, since python is not a system package, it doesn't even save the last compiled binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ if you only have buildsyspkg in

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:43:46 +0100 Arnau Bria ar...@emergetux.net wrote: Hi all, after last update, I ran revdep-rebuild and this is the package I have to rebuild: [...] * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 .. but it fails: [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf build fails

2010-02-04 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:15:01 +0100 Daniel Wagener wrote: [...] had this today this morning, solved it by unmasking app-text/xpdf-3.02-r4 after finding this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293588#c5 Thanks!! I always forget to look in bugs.gentto before asking here :-) Cheers! --

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote: I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem. I'm at a loss as to what this could be. When it says requires -liberty is liberty part of a package? I am not sure what it means by -liberty and were to acquire it. The library's name

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

2010-02-04 Thread Mariusz Ceier
W dniu 04.02.2010 12:45, Willie Wong pisze: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote: I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem. I'm at a loss as to what this could be. When it says requires -liberty is liberty part of a package? I am not sure what it means by

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:05:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about a portage feature request? The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system. Without the setting, python does not get included

[gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread James
Hello Folks, In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's experiences with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared his recent experience with DLNA: QUOTE: I would suspect that anything designed to just

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 15:37:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:05:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about a portage feature request? The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Leon Feng
在 2010/2/4 05:45:00,Harry Putnam : After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing. Anyone seen something similar or have an idea what might be the problem? I

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Leon, have you really run lafilefixer --justfixit and some time, ago, I had problems because of dangling symlinks, so I've run symlinks -dr /usr (which remove all dangling symlinks in /usr/**/*) Then re-emerge sys-devel/binutils again I hope this helps,m Helmut. On 4 Feb, Leon Feng

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either way, you risk breaking the system. Aren't all deps of packages in @system themselves already in

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:13:20 +0800, Leon Feng wrote: I have seen this for weeks, but since I upgrade to portage-2.2* at the same time, do not know whether it is related. My revdep-rebuild out is listed below, anyone has a solution? Are you also running the testing gentoolkit? Otherwise you're

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about a portage feature request? The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system. Without the setting, python does not get included in @system. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 2/4/2010 10:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either way, you risk breaking the system. Aren't all deps of

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Grant
I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always works great.  I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop.  Is there a way for it to detect the proper aspect ratio?  Maybe it depends on the

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:17:25 -0800, Grant wrote: Is there a slick way to restart xorg without rebootin /etc/init.d/xdm restart -- Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] VGA-out screen aspect ratio

2010-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've only ever used my laptop's VGA-out into 4:3 screens and it always works great.  I've now plugged it into a 16:9 screen for the first time, and it still displays 4:3 on that screen and on my laptop.  Is there a way for it to

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday 03 February 2010 23:45:00 Harry Putnam wrote: After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another revdep-rebuild and it finds the same thing.

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Doug Hunley
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 13:11, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Where does one find find lafilefixer? emerge dev-util/lafilefixer -- Douglas J Hunley, RHCT doug.hun...@gmail.com : http://douglasjhunley.com : Twitter: @hunleyd Obsessively opposed to the typical.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/4/2010 10:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:14:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about giving the same warning when unmerging a dependency of @system as you do when unmerging a package directly in there. Either way, you risk breaking the system.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:54:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: How about a portage feature request? The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-04 Thread Steven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22:13/02/04/10, Leon Feng wrote: ??? 2010/2/4 05:45:00???Harry Putnam ??? After todays update world, I run revdep-rebuild which reports binutils broken and uses `oneshot' to reinstall it. Follow with another revdep-rebuild and it finds

[gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I reported this before and it was suggested, that my harddisc/filessystem may be corrupted. Now I am sure that is not and I am beging for help again ... :) After doing a (as root): ionice -c 3 nice -19 eix-sync emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world and than a (as user) qsearch item

Re: [gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:14:56 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: qsearch item search: Updating ebuild metacache ... search: initialize_flat(): opening '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: q -m The

Re: [gentoo-user] Updateing kills metadatabase

2010-02-04 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-02-05 04:04]: On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:14:56 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: qsearch item search: Updating ebuild metacache ... search: initialize_flat(): opening '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied search:

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi instead of having a dongle

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:55 +, James wrote: Hello Folks, In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's experiences with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared his recent experience with DLNA: