Re: [gentoo-user] how to move overlays to a new storage location

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 06:18:22 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, A recent update of layman changed the storage variable in /etc/layman/layman.cfg to storage : /usr/local/portage/layman It was previously /usr/portage/local/layman. As a result I would like to move things to the new

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:58 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the command prompt: get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 I used to get this, although it caused no apparent problems. The message disappeared after upgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-28 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote: You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for setting your python version, U % eselect python help Manage the /usr/bin/python and

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:23:52 +0300 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/27/09, Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote: Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. Congratulations, it's already there! Sort of. -march=native ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11.

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:01:12 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I only have one machine right now. Someone gave me a HP laptop but I haven't fixed it yet. Power connector is shorted out big time. Then for example on tty2 start sleep 300 ; /etc/init.d/xdm stop ; killall X and on

[gentoo-user] k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka Start menu). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself?

Re: [gentoo-user] change output of passwd

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 14:55, Raul Gonzales rg0...@googlemail.com wrote: To something like: New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: password must be at least 6 characters long and must contain at least 1 digit, 1 special character Write a patch for the program? Make a new translation of the

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:44:58 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Anytime I fireup openoffice-3.0.0 components, I get this message at the command prompt: get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 I used to get this, although it caused no apparent problems. The message

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of x11-base/xorg-x11. My xorg has

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. Everything in there must not be in your world file. Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove everything X11, glib, gtk from world. kde? qt does not belong there. With a little bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Look into /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages. Everything in there must not be in your world file. Afterwards start the big deleting. You have gnome installed? Remove everything X11,

[gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the boot console. And this gem:

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a dependency of

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference to /var/lib/iinit.d/* in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: xterm fonts not loaded

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: And specifically make sure that media-fonts/font-misc-misc is not having problems. It was not installed. Now xterm is happy. Thanks, Hmm, how can that be? It's a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of php+mysql driven websites. The ecommerce website is meant to be used to process customer payments. I have not looked into setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 11:17, Daniel Iliev wrote: ... Not the same thing. -march= instructs gcc to produce a binary designed to run only on the given CPU architecture, while USE flags instruct the build system to include or not support for a given feature ... Actually, I _think_ in mplayer the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:57:08 Mick wrote: Hi All, I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of php+mysql driven websites. The ecommerce website is meant to be used to process

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 17:46:03 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device messages' with reference

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A chroot jail is of no real use to you here - it's a development tool and amazingly useful for gentoo installs, but has no real security or process separation benefits. So says Alan - not me, a different one. OK, thanks for this to both of you! :)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Jarry
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 20:57:08 Mick wrote: I am considering running an ecommerce website (php+mysql) on a server which is already running apache (with a number of virtual hosts) and a couple of php+mysql driven websites. The ecommerce website is meant to be used to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:33:02 Mick wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: A chroot jail is of no real use to you here - it's a development tool and amazingly useful for gentoo installs, but has no real security or process separation benefits. So says Alan - not me, a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:34:33 Jarry wrote: Ad.2: he can assign 2 IPs to single NIC. No need to buy the second NIC. BTW, I was in a similar situation: one user wanted to use notoriously buggy phpBB, but I did not want to risk compromising my other web-pages. So I have opted for #5:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 20:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Your problem will be that only one apache instance can run on port 80. Your options: 1. Run the ecommerce apache on a different port. 2. Install a second NIC with a different IP and bind each apache to port 80 on it's own nic. Or run the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:51:26 Stroller wrote: So I recommend option 4: Pony up the money for server #2 Just for the sake of satanic advocacy, could you indulge me, please? Let's say Mick is the administrator for all domains in question. He decides to run the two sites on different

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:13, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I'm not absolutely sure that the USE flags enable hand-written assembler code, but what I do know is that: Don't make it more difficult then it is. SSE, etc means the CPU support a certain set of instructions. When

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 21:08, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 21:13, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: I'm not absolutely sure that the USE flags enable hand-written assembler code, but what I do know is that: Don't make it more difficult then it is. SSE, etc

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:19, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with USEs? Or doesn't -march= support additional certain sets of instructions. What does it do, then? The

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-28 Thread Jarry
Alan McKinnon wrote: So I have opted for #5: vserver-sources, and I have multiple instances of apache running in pretty good isolated vserver-guests. My €0.0144 ... I used vserver once, and was very impressed with the performance. I didn't use it eventually, as I found administering a real

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 May 2009, at 21:27, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 22:19, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with USEs? Or doesn't -march= support additional certain sets of

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Maxim Wexler
My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the partition with a higher amount of inodes. Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes? This will create a file system with three times as many indoes as you had before. Is 3x enough? I haven't even gotten off the

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 May 2009 23:43:19 Maxim Wexler wrote: My advice: Save everything to another disk and then reformat the partition with a higher amount of inodes. Everything? Won't that copy over the extraneous inodes? You appear to not understand what an inode is. The inode IS THE FILE. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
- glxgears get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.565 FPS 298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.524 FPS 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.737 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS I have run into this same problem following an xorg-server upgrade, The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: Maxim Wexler schrieb: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more inodes. I reboot thinking this will help. Wrong. Lots of 'No space left on device

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka Start menu). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself? hmm...k3b- shows up in the 'multimedia' section

[gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka Start menu). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to create the desktop entry myself? hmm...k3b- shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka Start menu). Can this be seen as a bug or am I supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-28 Thread Valmor de Almeida
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: - glxgears get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.565 FPS 298 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.524 FPS 299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.737 FPS 300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.884 FPS I have run into this same problem following an

[gentoo-user] Re: k3b doesn't show in KDE 4's menu

2009-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 29 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I installed k3b (a KDE 3 application) but it doesn't show in KDE 4's application launch menu (aka Start menu). Can this be seen as a

Re: [gentoo-user] USE=mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Murray
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying to. What's the difference between supporting the certain set of instructions with -march= and doing so with