Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.06.2012 17:36, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: Thanks to you I ran emerge -1 =polkit-0.105 =udisks-1.97.0-r1 and it works. Did that on my main workstation, here it works. On my thinkpad it doesn't work, I don't know why ... Gnome3 starts into a Oh no! Something has gone wrong. screen, ah,

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re , Philip Webb said: I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs . Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD, which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to friends.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Keith Dart
Re jqsvb2$3a0$1@dough.gmane.orgjqsvb2$3a0$1...@dough.gmane.org, walt said: For reasons I don't know, the polkit daemon wasn't actually running. Dunno if it failed to start or somebody forgot to start it. Either way the system was broken, so I'll let the experts figure it out. I had the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 13:43, schrieb Keith Dart: My quick and dirty solution was to change it's home directory to /var/empty. polkitd:x:122:987:added by portage for polkit:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin Now it will start. That's probably not the best place since it is actually used by and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 12:43, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't know, this thinkpad worked perfectly well with gnome-shell and hw-acceleration. At least I can use it with Gnome3 in fallback-mode for now, but it would be nice to get full Gnome3 again (yes, I already tried switching back to

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Jarry
On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote: I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the set-up -- LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better solution these days. Honestly, never heard of it. Gentoo Handbook lists only GRUB and LILO as bootloaders. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
See these lines in Xorg.0.log: [ 1661.605] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 1661.605] (II) LoadModule: intel [ 1661.605] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so [ 1661.606] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] Beware of today's update to polkit-1.98.0 (SOLVED FOR ME)

2012-06-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-06-10 19:49, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I still don't have an idea what I did wrong ... Solved so far. Had to add some lines to my package.env as I run the LTO-enabled gcc-setup suggested by Nikos lately (had to disable lto for the drivers and mesa). Re-compiled the

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:41:37 +0200 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote: I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the set-up -- LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better solution these days. Honestly, never

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to document them. One of the main

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for desktop use which

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices, liveCDs and that sort of thing.

[gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). Currently, users are being warned in big red letters that 'mDNSResponder' is masked soon wb removed: the alternative is 'avahi'. I unmerged the former emerged the latter, then tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). Currently, users are being warned in big red letters that 'mDNSResponder' is masked soon wb removed: the

[gentoo-user] Re: dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-10 Thread walt
On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call grub simple and well-documented Usually, grub is anything but :-) Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at least GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/09/2012 05:59 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 08 June 2012 22:01:08 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: $ cat .htaccess RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://tideswellmvc.co.uk/.*$ [NC]

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache server setup

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/10/2012 09:58 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: If you want to allow overrides in an htaccess, you'll need at least, Directory /var/www/whatever Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride FileInfo Options /Directory in the main config or your vhost config. Ugh. If you

[gentoo-user] Adding a use flag: hwdb

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Background: I enable USE flags by adding them to /etc/portage/package.use. This file is filled with all sorts of personal preference customizations of my system. This file does not contain required system USE flags. A month ago emerge insisted that I enable a USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 : a nasty problem

2012-06-10 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: My favorite game is the KDE 3 version of Mahjongg : no, the KDE 4 version is nowhere near as good (smile). Currently, users are being warned in big red letters that 'mDNSResponder' is masked soon wb removed: the alternative is 'avahi'. I unmerged the former emerged the