Re: [gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-15 Thread Stroller
On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to install some glibc developement files. A google search doesn't point me in the direction of what these might be. According to eix glibc, I have debug turned OFF -

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: blanking disk of linux appliance

2013-01-15 Thread Stroller
On 14 January 2013, at 02:11, Adam Carter wrote: shred and dd available, but not srm etc I want to remove the user account info before the device is returned, but dont want to cripple the device. Filesystem is ext3 with default mount options, … What kind of device is it? I would have

[gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to umount /home The process never proceeds beyond that point (as /home is always fsck'ed on next startup). I can't see any logs as syslog has already been shut down

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to umount /home If you logout as your user(s) so only root is logged in, does lsof show any hits for

[gentoo-user] [OT] Xlib tutorial

2013-01-15 Thread pat
Hello, Sorry for this off topic. I want to learn how to develop UI applications using Xlib. I've searched web, but I could not find a tutorial which will explain it all (found some short examples). Please, could someone suggest a website or a book? Thanks Pat

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xlib tutorial

2013-01-15 Thread pat
Sorry, should search for xlib and not x.org :-| Pat On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:55:59 +0100, pat wrote Hello, Sorry for this off topic. I want to learn how to develop UI applications using Xlib. I've searched web, but I could not find a tutorial which will explain it all (found some

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to umount /home The process never proceeds beyond that point (as /home is always fsck'ed on next startup). I can't see any logs as syslog

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to umount /home If you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xlib tutorial

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, pat p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hello, Sorry for this off topic. I want to learn how to develop UI applications using Xlib. I've searched web, but I could not find a tutorial which will explain it all (found some short examples). Please, could someone suggest a

[gentoo-user] No native exception to re-raise

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Mol
I've seen this error a couple times this week. Has anyone else seen it before? Is there a simple way to clear it, or am I going to need to dig into emerge's source code and study it? $ emerge --searchdesc pulseaudio Searching... |Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Xlib tutorial

2013-01-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.01.2013 15:12, schrieb pat: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:22:03 -0500, Michael Mol wrote On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, pat p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hello, Sorry for this off topic. I want to learn how to develop UI applications using Xlib. I've searched web, but I could not find a

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 15, 2013 7:59 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:44:11 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On the rare occasion when I reboot or shut this laptop down, it continually and consistently gets stuck on one of the final steps, to umount /home The process never proceeds beyond that point (as

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:47:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 15, 2013 7:59 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:57:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Fuser is the best way to do IT. Am 15.01.2013 16:07 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:47:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 15, 2013 7:59 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 + Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: No native exception to re-raise

2013-01-15 Thread james
Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: I've seen this error a couple times this week. Has anyone else seen it before? Is there a simple way to clear it, or am I going to need to dig into emerge's source code and study it? Often when every I have python issues, I run python-updater and look

RE: [gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-15 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to install some glibc developement files. A google search doesn't point me in the direction of what these might be. According to eix glibc, I have debug turned OFF - is

[gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Remy Blank
Alan McKinnon wrote: But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly after a KDE login. I have observed that kded4 and nepomukserver sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Dale
Remy Blank wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly after a KDE login. I have observed that kded4 and

[gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Remy Blank
Dale wrote: Care to share that script? ;-) May try that myself. Sure, here it is: $ cat .kde4/shutdown/cleanup-kde-processes #!/bin/bash log() { logger -t $(basename $0) $1 } is_running() { killall -0 -u $USER $1 } kill_if_running() { sleep 15 is_running startkde return 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Dale
Remy Blank wrote: Dale wrote: Care to share that script? ;-) May try that myself. Sure, here it is: $ cat .kde4/shutdown/cleanup-kde-processes #!/bin/bash log() { logger -t $(basename $0) $1 } is_running() { killall -0 -u $USER $1 } kill_if_running() { sleep 15 is_running

[gentoo-user] apcupsd settings for hibernate+shutdown?

2013-01-15 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm running an APC UPS on Gentoo linux (Back-UPS XS 1300G). Up till now, I've used the UPS in dumb mode; i.e. no acpusd running. My main concern has been short power blips, and under/over-voltage. All I wanted was a few minutes to shut down or hibernate the PC before the battery gave out.

[gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Looking for comments: A while back I removed java during an upgrade on my main desktop system and left icedtea6-bin in place without any noticeable effect. Presumably icedtea6 suffers the same java bug (cant find anything in their bugzilla though?) thats got everybody riled at the moment,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:37:28 +0100 Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly

[gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working

2013-01-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working. I tried a keyboard and that failed as well. There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the keyboard on one). I can dual boot into windows and there the mouse does work on both ports. The kernel is unchanged

Re: [gentoo-user] Ekopath compiler failing to build - something about glibc development files

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/16/13 06:31, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 13 January 2013, at 06:53, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... From all of the above, I think the important part is that I need to install some glibc developement files. A google search doesn't point me in the direction of what these might be. According

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working

2013-01-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The external (USB) mouse on one of my laptops stopped working. I tried a keyboard and that failed as well. There are two USB ports and the mouse fails on both (only tried the keyboard on one). I can dual boot into

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an exploit in the sun/oracle jvm would not necessarily affect icedtea. However, I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 16/01/13 at 02:34am, Alan McKinnon wrote: I just checked now and I don't even have kde-base/nepomuk *installed* anymore. I wonder how that came about, I thought nepomuk was mandatory for KDE4? you probably have USE=-semantic-desktop :D -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an exploit

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the