Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/05/2013 08:30:36 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and

[gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-06 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta in xfce-base ... [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10:0 and kernel: box0=; uname -a Linux box0 3.10.7-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sat Oct 5 23:57:58 EEST 2013 i686 Intel(R)

[gentoo-user] USB disk automatically mounting: how does it work

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) the mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm looking for a level of detail like this: When you insert a USB device, the kernel sends out a notification A. Userland daemons such as B can catch this signal.

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-03, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say you wanted to configure routing of TCP packets based on destination port like in this example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html [which contains a series of 'ip' and 'iptables' commands

Re: [gentoo-user] USB disk automatically mounting: how does it work

2013-10-06 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/13 20:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) the mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm looking for a level of detail like this: When you insert a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see my UPS and nut couldn't start its services. So, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 05/10/2013 12:13, Dale wrote: Dale changed his motherboard recently, presumably he knows what his chipset offers This is the rig I built a few years ago. It has a Gigabyte mobo but it hasn't been changed yet. I was planning on it but family issues moved that from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/10/2013 20:36, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see my UPS and nut

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/10/2013 20:36, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
More info to cloud up things even more. I tried different versions of kernel and each one of them produced the same error. I went all the way back to 3.5.3 and up to 3.11.1. I might add, I ran that 3.5.3 kernel for months with no problems that I know of, including this one. My longest uptime

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:24:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That's what I meant tho. I have USB3 ports but it seems they have been running at USB2 speeds since I never enabled USB3 drivers. I sort of missed that. No clue if the stuff I am plugging in supports USB3 or not tho. Maybe my USB sticks do

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:24:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That's what I meant tho. I have USB3 ports but it seems they have been running at USB2 speeds since I never enabled USB3 drivers. I sort of missed that. No clue if the stuff I am plugging in supports USB3 or not tho.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:24:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That's what I meant tho. I have USB3 ports but it seems they have been running at USB2 speeds since I never enabled USB3 drivers. I sort of missed that. No clue

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-06 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:01:09PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta in xfce-base ... [IP-] [ ] xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10:0 and kernel: box0=; uname -a Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/10/2013 21:24, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/10/2013 20:36, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:36:50PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see my UPS and nut couldn't start its services. So, it appears that mine must be ancient hardware. My messages file is still full of the same error

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Helmut Jarausch writes: You are not alone, Alex, please see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486438 Thanks! Alan McKinnon writes: On 05/10/2013 20:30, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice.

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-06 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-29 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/09/2013 19:59, Tanstaafl wrote: I've been told that this shouldn't be a big deal... while I am a (barely) passable linux sys admin Allow me to forward an opinion. The above is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 23:07:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Your USB sticks are not USB3. I have yet to see one anywhere that is. I can send you a photo of mine :) I don;t thing they are even remotely fast enough to warrant it It is noticeably, but not massively, faster. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 00:01:33 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: As a workround, you could remove LO from your world file, do your updates but don't depclean, then put it back with emerge -n libreoffice It may be quicker than trying to track down the cause. I don't worry about this. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:31:43PM -0500, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:24:25 -0500, Dale wrote: That's what I meant tho. I have USB3 ports but it seems they have been running at USB2 speeds since I never enabled USB3 drivers. I sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:36:50PM -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I rebuilt the kernel and removed the OHCI and UHCI. When I rebooted, it couldn't see my UPS and nut couldn't start its services. So, it appears that mine must be ancient hardware. My messages file is still full

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/10/2013 21:24, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/10/2013 20:36, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: These days all you need is ehci for usb2 and xhci for usb3 (unless you are using ancient hardware with physical usb1 ports) Well, I rebuilt the kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] Network failed and weird error message

2013-10-06 Thread Dale
Update. I figure what the heck. Time to crawl under the desk for a while. I stop the UPS services and then unplug the USB cable to the UPS. The error stops. I plug the cable back up with the services NOT started, no error but it spits out the messages that it sees the UPS and such. I start

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-06 Thread James
Gregory Shearman zekeyg at gmail.com writes: b) The important reason I need an initramfs is that I have my root filesystems on LVM partitions (except for my ARM servers). Hello Gregory, Please tell me, as much as you are confortable with, about your ARM servers Running Gentoo?

[gentoo-user] midori-9999: tricky conflicts

2013-10-06 Thread Grant
I get some pretty tricky-looking conflicts when trying to emerge midori- from the elementary overlay. Has anyone been able to get this installed? !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-06 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/10/13 00:01, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:01:09PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I want to be able auto-mount removable drives. I'm running xfce: box0=; equery list xfce-base/xfce4-meta * Searching for xfce4-meta in xfce-base ... [IP-] [ ]

[gentoo-user] Re: midori-9999: tricky conflicts

2013-10-06 Thread Grant
I get some pretty tricky-looking conflicts when trying to emerge midori- from the elementary overlay. Has anyone been able to get this installed? Actually it looks like midori-0.5.5:elementary has the same difficult list of dependencies which is not correct because I have midori-0.5.5