[gentoo-user] rc single, rc default console login

2009-02-13 Thread Dale
Hi folks, I from time to time will go to a console and do a rc single to go to single user mode. I have noticed something weird when I go back to rc default tho. On the #1 console, it acts and looks like I am logged out but when I type in the user name root, it acts like it is a command. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Fri, February 13, 2009 7:49 am, Eray Aslan wrote: On 13.02.2009 07:48, Stroller wrote: On 13 Feb 2009, at 00:53, Philip Webb wrote: 090212 Stroller quoted: In vim, you can just select the rectangular region with Ctrl-v, then type I#ESC. This will insert # in each line at the same column.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login from terminal?

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:43:49 +0800 Chuanwen Wu wcw8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, here is the root infomation in my /etc/passwd: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash Looks okay, can't see anything wrong in bash configs, too. I got the login information below from the tail of /var/log/messages: ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-13 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thu, February 5, 2009 9:12 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:03:30 +0100 (CET), Jes�s Guerrero wrote: Gentoo is not a distro. You don't use it, It's a metadristro that can be used to build a proper distro, after that you can use the final product. It's a flatpack distro ;-)

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.2 problems

2009-02-13 Thread András , Csányi - Sayusi Ando
Hi all! After few weeks suffer (under XP) I came back and I have few questions! I installed kde-4.2 and this is love at first sight! But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to update my system and kdelibs-4.x and kdelibs-3.5.x are blocked

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.2 problems

2009-02-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 13 Februar 2009, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: Hi all! After few weeks suffer (under XP) I came back and I have few questions! I installed kde-4.2 and this is love at first sight! But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to

[gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:34AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: True, but with this method, you don't use the mouse, just the keyboard: 1) Go to first line Press gg 2) Press CTRL+V 3) go to last line Press G 4) Press ESC Why this stage ? 5) Press SHIFT+I 6) Press '#' 7) Press ESC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Fri, February 13, 2009 1:37 pm, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:34AM +0100, Joost Roeleveld wrote: True, but with this method, you don't use the mouse, just the keyboard: 1) Go to first line Press gg Actually meant going to first line of block you want to comment

Re: [gentoo-user] rc single, rc default console login

2009-02-13 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I from time to time will go to a console and do a rc single to go to single user mode. I have noticed something weird when I go back to rc default tho. On the #1 console, it acts and looks like I am logged out but

[gentoo-user] --emptytree and slots

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, switching to a new machine is good opportunity to do house-cleaning. I wonder what emerge --emptytree does when several versions of some packages like kde or gcc are installed (in different slots). The entry in the 'world' file does not contain the slot info. Is there any danger it will

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.2 problems

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
András wrote: But - there is always an 'but'... ;) - k3b is depends on kdelibs-3.5.x. Yesterday I wanted to update my system and kdelibs-4.x and kdelibs-3.5.x are blocked package. I installed kde-4.2 with kdeprefix USE flag. I have 3.5.10 together with 4.2.0 installed. There's no blockage.

Re: [gentoo-user] --emptytree and slots

2009-02-13 Thread Nickolas Fortino
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, switching to a new machine is good opportunity to do house-cleaning. I wonder what emerge --emptytree does when several versions of some packages like kde or gcc are installed (in different slots).

[gentoo-user] kde 4.2 no prefixed problems

2009-02-13 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
Hi, I installed kde-4.2 with USE=kdeprefix two weeks ago and everything I needed was working all right. Then I decided to change my USE flags and delete kdeprefix in order to have kde in /usr. After that I: - Did an emerge -uDN world - Deleted my user folders .kde* The result was a kde-4.2

Re: [gentoo-user] rc single, rc default console login

2009-02-13 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I from time to time will go to a console and do a rc single to go to single user mode. I have noticed something weird when I go back to rc default tho. On the #1 console, it acts and looks

[gentoo-user] x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage fetches the 32-bit variant of the package. The SRC_URI depends on use flags x86 and

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2 no prefixed problems

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hi, I installed kde-4.2 with USE=kdeprefix two weeks ago and everything I needed was working all right. Then I decided to change my USE flags and delete kdeprefix in order to have kde in /usr. After that I: - Did an emerge -uDN world - Deleted my user folders

[gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage fetches the 32-bit variant of the package. The SRC_URI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage fetches the

[gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when emerging sci-libs/acml, portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Lee
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop Still, when

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on new install has die econf failed

2009-02-13 Thread Joseph Davis
Thanks for you directions - you pointed me where I needed to see. Something near there mentioned checking the clock, which I did, it was set three years ago. I set the BIOS clock, to local time, then reset it to UTC time (doh!) I then ran # emerge ntp and it worked! Hopefully that was it! I

[gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-02-13 Thread András , Csányi - Sayusi Ando
Hi all! I'm here again. So, the problem points is I can't decide what is the real problem. But I can describe the symptomes. I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I reinstall gentoo, started this weird thing. If I start mc in the screen nothings happen. I can see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x86 versus amd64 - where is it set / overwritten

2009-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 13 Feb, Ian Lee wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 13 Feb, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm working on an AMD opteron, definitely an AMD64 machine. /etc/make.conf contains CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu my profile is

Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2009, at 06:49, Eray Aslan wrote: ... Surely it's easier just to highlight the lines? Not when you are working with the keyboard most of the time. Taking your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse is time consuming and becomes rather annoying. LOL! Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2009, at 09:24, Joost Roeleveld wrote: ... On my system I then need to move the cursor to actually see the change, is this normal? Here the change appears when you move the cursor... or after a slow second. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2 no prefixed problems

2009-02-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 February 2009 19:01:32 Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hi, I installed kde-4.2 with USE=kdeprefix two weeks ago and everything I needed was working all right. Then I decided to change my USE flags and delete kdeprefix in order to have kde in /usr. After that I: - Did an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: Hi all! I'm here again. So, the problem points is I can't decide what is the real problem. But I can describe the symptomes. I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I

[gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:58:52PM +, Stroller wrote: Not when you are working with the keyboard most of the time. Taking your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse is time consuming and becomes rather annoying. LOL! But so true. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] {OT} convert all .png to 0 compression

2009-02-13 Thread Grant
My music folder is filled with images like this: artist/album/cover.png artist/album/CD/front.png artist/album/CD/back.png I think gmpc is struggling with all of the decompression so I'd like to change all of their compression to 0. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? - Grant

[gentoo-user] trouble with evince (mime bad?)

2009-02-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Recently evince stopped working on one of my machines, ajglap. For every pdf, evince opens a window and complains unable to open document unhandled mime type Sometimes the mime type is application/text other times it is application/octet-stream. But the file is definitely a pdf. For

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} convert all .png to 0 compression

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My music folder is filled with images like this: artist/album/cover.png artist/album/CD/front.png artist/album/CD/back.png I think gmpc is struggling with all of the decompression so I'd like to change all of their

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} convert all .png to 0 compression

2009-02-13 Thread Grant
My music folder is filled with images like this: artist/album/cover.png artist/album/CD/front.png artist/album/CD/back.png I think gmpc is struggling with all of the decompression so I'd like to change all of their compression to 0. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Feb 2009, at 21:45, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:58:52PM +, Stroller wrote: Not when you are working with the keyboard most of the time. Taking your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse is time consuming and becomes rather annoying. LOL! But so true.

[gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread daid kahl
In vim, you can just select the rectangular region with Ctrl-v, then type I#ESC. This will insert # in each line at the same column. If you want to comment a series of lines m-n , it's quicker to do : :m,ns/^/#/ I saw similar comments in my Google searches, but I am flummoxed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 14 Feb 2009, at 04:21, daid kahl wrote: You can also enable line numbering, either in command mode using set nu, or in ~/.vimrc (which I prefer since I always like line numbers, except if I'm copy and pasting...then it's annoying). There is also a macro I made (stole from somewhere and

Re: [gentoo-user] rc single, rc default console login

2009-02-13 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I from time to time will go to a console and do a rc single to go to single user mode. I have noticed something weird when I go back to rc default tho. On the #1 console, it acts and looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread daid kahl
Is there any way to access the vim buffers from other than vi? Using Konsole, if I want to copy something from vim I have to highlight with the mouse and right click, which is annoying. I really just want a better way to copy from Konsole that doesn't involve right click. At least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Commenting out multiple lines in vim

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 14 Feb 2009, at 05:03, daid kahl wrote: Is there any way to access the vim buffers from other than vi? Using Konsole, if I want to copy something from vim I have to highlight with the mouse and right click, which is annoying. I really just want a better way to copy from Konsole that

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:40, Justin wrote: pkg_postinst() { ewarn You can find an example /etc/ntp.conf in /usr/share/ntp/ ewarn Review /etc/ntp.conf to setup server info. ewarn Review /etc/conf.d/ntpd to setup init.d info. echo elog The way ntp sets and