Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/5/19 Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. The latest release for SystemRescueCd 2.1.1 is dated 2011-05-07! Just looking at the This page was

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Wed, 18 May 2011 21:33:58 Indi wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Indi wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:20:01PM +0200, James Cloos wrote: I == Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com writes: Leafnode works fine here. I Output of xinetd -d Looks fine. In

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now obsolete, with a better capability built into portage. From man make.conf FEATURES = fixlafiles

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 19/05/2011 04:12, Valmor de Almeida a écrit : Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor Hi, I use SystemRescueCD for years, and it works fine. I back up all my system with

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 May 2011 22:12:24 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. You boot from the CD, not the web site, and that was updated this month (and just about every month).

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 05/19/2011 04:12:24 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. It even offers a beta version which has been working for me ever since. Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help me. As it turned out, comparing MD5 sum is intractable, /usr/lib64 alone contained more than 500,000 files ! The /etc tree didn't show significant differences. So, I resorted to keep my 4 cores busy over the weekend to re-emerge the whole machine.

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/19/2011 05:17 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 05/19/2011 04:12:24 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. It even offers a beta version which has been

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] external monitor output during boot

2011-05-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 05/19/2011 01:38 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 05/18/2011 09:50 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a laptop during boot or when just using a plain console

Re: [gentoo-user] decplean left libtunepimp.la behind

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 22:28:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:06 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: Had a depclean session which removed:  media-libs/musicbrainz    

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: If so, why is it still in portage and no mention of its obsolesence in the elogs? I use sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha34 so it it possible that it is not yet in stable portage. AFAIK this feature has been

Re: [gentoo-user] decplean left libtunepimp.la behind

2011-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:17 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 22:28:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:06 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] RIP lafilefixer: I must have missed the memo

2011-05-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: Am 19.05.2011 04:09, schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: I've been using dev-util/lafilefixer ever since I learned about it. Now I've bumped into a thread whose latest posts suggests that it is now obsolete, with a

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hmmm... that would be a nice start, thanks! Now to figure out how to carry out RAID 0 Striping and Replication. Do you think this 'GentooFiler' thingy I'm planning is worth it to be suggested in [gentoo-project] ? Rgds, On

[gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a suitable profile. I would like to select a different profile and compare its USE flags with those of my current profile. -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:45 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? emerge --info | grep USE The reason I ask is I'm hypothesising that my recent troubles in Gnome may be due to not having a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Felix Leif Keppmann
Hey Alan, to get the current USE flags use emerge --info and look at USE=... This does not include local use flags, for those you should check your files in /etc/portage/package.use or /etc/portage/package.use/ Cheers Felix Leif On Thursday 19 May 2011 18:45:41 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:28:55PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote The difference between bash and perl? Perl was inspired by a linguist, who at least puts his foot down at the truly crazy suggestions. Bash has no such thing. Perl is a bloated mediocre operating system, complete with repo

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I dump use flags?

2011-05-19 Thread Bill Longman
On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. How do I list out a list of current USE flags? Besides the emerge --info examples already given, if you have gentoolkit installed, you can use euse -i which, in the example above, lists out all the flags, where they come from and

[gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Thanks, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there an ati-drivers version which can coexist with the 2.6.39 kernel

2011-05-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 19.05.2011 22:32, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, no current ati-driver can get along with the recent 2.6.39 kernel see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368081 Does anybody know a work around? Hi, there are always the open drivers x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati and

[gentoo-user] vmware-player w/ linux-2.6.39

2011-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Just wanted to point you vmware-users to a patch for vmware-modules: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/2011/05/14/running-vmware-workstation-player-on-linux-2-6-39-updated/ Built my own little ebuild in an overlay, now vmware-player runs fine w/ fresh new gentoo-sources-2.6.39 Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

2011-05-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 May 2011 04:56:42 Stroller wrote: On 19/5/2011, at 2:41am, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player service.) Why do you bother at all, then? Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash lockups

2011-05-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 May 2011 23:03:10 Mick wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 04:56:42 Stroller wrote: On 19/5/2011, at 2:41am, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2011 02:28:21 Stroller wrote: On 18/5/2011, at 5:57pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... (I only use Flash for the BBC I-Player

[gentoo-user] screensaver won't come on unless screen is locked

2011-05-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
Since my recent complete system and world rebuild after switching to a new gcc profile, my screensaver does not come on. It works perfectly if the screen is locked, however it does not come on otherwise. Please help. Some information I thought pertinent to my problem has been pasted below: